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{{Short description|South African historian}}
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'''Jefferson John Guy''', known and published as Jeff Guy (13 June 1940 – 15 December 2014) was a well known and published academic historian whose main interest was the history of [[Natal province|Natal]] and the [[Zulu people]].
==Early life==
Guy attended school in [[Pietermaritzburg]], for a few years after completing his schooling he worked on farms in Britain and the then [[Rhodesia]], and was briefly in the military as a sailor and soldier.{{sfn|Bundy|2014}} In 1963 he registered for a degree in English at the [[University of Natal]],{{sfn|Burns|2015}} but switched courses to History under the influence of Colin Webb.{{sfn|Bundy|2014}} After graduating with an Honours degree in history he travelled to the U.K. and began a Ph.D. degree in history with [[Shula Marks]] as his supervisor. His Ph.D. thesis was later published as ''The Destruction of the Zulu Kingdom: The Civil War in Zululand, 1879-1884''{{sfn|Guy|1979}}
==Career==
After graduating with the Ph.D. degree, Guy taught for a while in London, but later moved to [[Lesotho]] where he lectured history at the [[Roma, Lesotho|Roma]] campus of what was then the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]].{{sfn|Burns|2015}} He left Lesotho for a position as a history lecturer at the [[University of Trondheim]] in Norway. In 1992 he returned to South Africa and became head of the history department at the Durban campus of the [[University of Natal]].{{sfn|Burns|2015}}
==Personal life==
While studying for his doctoral degree in London he met and married Naimi Haque. His two children with Naimi, Heli and Joe were raised in Lesotho.{{sfn|Burns|2015}} Guy died at [[Heathrow Airport]] while travelling back home to South Africa after attending a conference and giving a lecture marking the bicentenary of the birth of [[John Colenso]], the first [[bishop of Natal]].{{sfn|Bundy|2014}}
==Published works==
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*{{cite book | last=Guy | first=J. | title=Production and Exchange in the Zulu Kingdom | year=1978 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YFzLrQEACAAJ |display-authors=0 }}
*{{cite book | last=Guy | first=J. | title=The Destruction of the Zulu Kingdom: The Civil War in Zululand, 1879-1884 | publisher=Longman | year=1979 | isbn=978-0-582-64686-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ng51AAAAMAAJ|display-authors=0}}
*{{cite book | last1=Cope | first1=R.L. | last2=Guy | first2=J. | title=The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879: Two Centenary Lectures | publisher=Friends of the Library, University of the Witwatersrand | year=1979b | isbn=978-0-85494-548-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-iANAQAAIAAJ |display-authors=0 }} with Richard L. Cope
* {{cite book | last=Guy | first=J. | title=The Heretic: A Study of the Life of John William Colenso, 1814-1883 | publisher=Ravan Press | series=Study of the Life of John William Colenso, 1814-1883 | year=1983 | isbn=978-0-86975-168-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hac9AAAAYAAJ|display-authors=0 }}
*{{cite book | last=Guy | first=J. | title=Gender Oppression in Southern Africa's Pre-capitalist Societies | publisher=University of Natal, Department of African Studies, Local Government Project | series=Workshop on Regionalism and Restructuring in Natal | year=1988 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-i4rQEACAAJ | display-authors=0}}
*{{cite book | last=Guy | first=J. | title=Creating History: An Introduction to Historical Studies : a Resource Book | year=1996 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0nKqtgAACAAJ| display-authors=0}}
* {{cite journal | last=Guy | first=Jeff | title=Battling with Banality | journal=Journal of Natal and Zulu History | publisher=Informa UK Limited | volume=18 | issue=1 | year=1998 | issn=0259-0123 | doi=10.1080/02590123.1998.11964105 | pages=156–193|display-authors=0}}
*{{cite book | last=Guy | first=J. | title=The View Across the River: Harriette Colenso and the Zulu Struggle Against Imperialism | publisher=University Press of Virginia | series=Reconsiderations in southern African history | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-86486-373-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HAIXg3NqqyEC | display-authors=0}}
* {{cite journal | last=Guy | first=Jeff | title=Somewhere over the rainbow: the nationstate, democracy and race in a globalising South Africa | journal=Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa | publisher=Project Muse | volume=56 | issue=1 | year=2004 | issn=1726-1368 | doi=10.1353/trn.2005.0018 | pages=68–89 | s2cid=154111939 | display-authors=0}}
*{{cite book | last=Guy | first=J. | title=The Maphumulo Uprising: War, Law and Ritual in the Zulu Rebellion | publisher=University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | year=2005 | isbn=978-1-86914-048-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fwZzAAAAMAAJ | display-authors=0}}
* {{cite book | last=Guy | first=J. | title=Remembering the Rebellion: The Zulu Uprising of 1906 | publisher=University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | year=2006 | isbn=978-1-86914-117-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQ5zAAAAMAAJ | display-authors=0}}
*{{cite book | last=Guy | first=J. | title=Theophilus Shepstone and the Forging of Natal: African Autonomy and Settler Colonialism in the Making of Traditional Authority | publisher=University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-86914-249-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtxAngEACAAJ |display-authors=0}}
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==References==
===Citations===
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===Sources===
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* {{cite web | title=Farewell to Jeff Guy, an extraordinary SA historian | website=The Mail & Guardian | url=https://mg.co.za/article/2014-12-18-farewell-to-jeff-guy-an-extraordinary-sa-historian/ | first=Colin |last=Bundy|date=18 December 2014 | access-date=2021-09-17}}
* {{cite journal | last=Burns | first=Catherine | title=Jeff Guy: A Life – Historian, Teacher, Passionate Citizen and Gifted Writer | journal=South African Historical Journal | publisher=Informa UK Limited | volume=67 | issue=1 | date=2 January 2015 | issn=0258-2473 | doi=10.1080/02582473.2015.1035042 | pages=106–111| s2cid=144009772 }}
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===Further reading===
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*{{Cite web |title=An archive for historian Jeff Guy (1940-2014) |last1=Healy-Clancy |first1=Meghan |last2=Kelly |first2=Jill E. |work=africasacountry.com |date=20 December 2014 |access-date=17 September 2021 |url= https://africasacountry.com/2014/12/an-archive-for-south-african-historian-jeff-guy-1940-2014 |quote=}}
*{{Cite web |title=Obit: Professor Jeff Guy |last=Waetjen |first=Thembisa |work=Sunday Tribune |date=25 January 2015 |access-date=17 September 2021 |url= https://networks.h-net.org/node/10670/discussions/58931/obit-professor-jeff-guy |quote=}}
*{{Cite web |title=OMT Fellowship 2007 — Jeff Guy |author= |work=The Oppenheimer Memorial Trust |date= |access-date=17 September 2021 |url= https://www.omt.org.za/the-harry-oppenheimer-fellowship-award/past-fellows/2007-jeff-guy/ |quote=}}
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