Abstract

SWANEPOEL, P. Prison Personnel in the Colony of Natal from circa 1850 to the Prison Reform Commission of 1905-1906. PER [online]. 2023, vol.26, n.1, pp.1-36. ISSN 1727-3781.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2023/v26i0a15896.

White colonial ideology was produced as a result of the fractured nature of the relations - social, political and economic - between black and white in the colony of Natal. Apart from the racial tensions between warders and prisoners of different races, tensions within the colonial edifice itself - particularly between police officers and gaol officials - reveal deep divisions within the colonial state. The article is primarily based on material housed in the Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository; some quotations from The Black Peril by an imprisoned journalist, George Webb Hardy, have also been included.

Keywords : Colonial Natal; gaol system; prison personnel; Durban; Pietermaritzburg.

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