David Dale Buchanan (1819-74) This brilliant but somewhat reckless man was the founder and editor of the Natal Witness. Born in Scotland he came as a boy to Cape Town with his brother whom he assisted in setting up a school. He also worked for George Greig, proprietor of a Cape Town newspaper. When Buchanan left the Cape in 1846 with his wife and four young children he brought with him a hand press and fount of worn type presented to him by Grieg.  A month after his arrival in Pietermaritzburg he produced the first issue of his paper, edited and printed by himself. It consisted of four pages only and was a weekly of small format. For a year it was bilingual. In April 1850 Benjamin C.C. Pine, the new lieutenant governor in succession to MArtin West , arrived and in some way or other incurred the intense dislike of Buchan.