Swaziland Digital Archives: Decades: 1960's

About the 1960's

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1960's Balegane cattle crossing Photographer: Rev. Forrester Source: Bob Forrester	Photo No. 542	Hereford-Afrikander cattle crossing the Komati River near Balegane Store. The structure in the background is a pumphouse for a cattle dip. Pumps of the period were often driven by long flapping canvas belts, and often powered by tractors or LandRovers.
1960's Balegane Garden Photographer: Rev. Forrester Source: Bob Forrester	Photo No. 526	White settlers copied the Swazi custom of having bare earth around houses to discourage snakes. But they kept flowerbeds and birdbaths with often bizarre results. This is the garden at Balegane Ranch in the early sixties.
1960's Constitution Photographer: Rev. Forrester Source: Bob Forrester	Photo No. 530	Around Independence, indabas were held around the country to inform people of the changes that Independence would bring. Here is the team spreading the word near Balegane. The women are Cecile Forrester (in hat) Hester Dawson is standing (light dress), others unknown.
1960's Dressed for the Occasion Photographer: Rev. Forrester Source: Bob Forrester	Photo No. 538	Cecile Forrester and two officials.
1960's Fancy Dress Party Photographer: Rev. Forrester Source: Bob Forrester	Photo No. 534	Mushroom Farms was a scheme where good officer stock who had fought in WWI and II obtained virgin land for farming through a series of loans. Here is a fancy dress party, mid sixties, at the Francis's farm near Croydon, site of a Mushroom Land Settlement. From left Leslie Francis (pirate), Janet White (nurse with Philips Milk of Magnesia bottle on tray), Phil White (smaller pirate), George White (pixie with bow), Bob Forrester (clown), Elamarie van Rooyen (cut off pants). The organising adult was Rosemary Francis.
1960's Forestry Experts Photographer: George Murdoch Source: George Murdoch	Photo No. 334	Britain foresaw the development of Swaziland in agricultural terms, vast sugar schemes and the world's second largest man-made forest were started by the Colonial Development Corporation (later Commonwealth D.C.) with the long term aim of being owned by the Nation.
1960's Gordon Highlanders Photographer: Mrs Culverwell Source: James Culverwell	Photo No. 144	The Gordon Highlanders were sent in by the British to quell suspected strikes and riots in the early sixties.
1960's Komati River in Flood Photographer: Rev. Forrester Source: Bob Forrester	Photo No. 527	Low level bridges were common by the mid-sixties, replacing the earlier ponts. They were prone to flooding but were designed to withstand water. For a week or so each year, the Komati and Usutu were impassable. This is the Komati River at Balegane bridge, Cecile Forrester standing.
1960's Last wild lion Photographer: Unknown Source: Kockott family	Photo No. 141	The last wild lion in Swaziland. Two versions of this photo exist, this one with black hunters and another with white hunters.
1960's Last wild lion Photographer: Unknown Source: Kockott family	Photo No. 154	The last wild lion in Swaziland, shot on the orders of the King. There is also a photo of the same lion with its black hunters. Nick Degenaar (left), and Barry Wasdell (right).