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Robert Mugabe's Lost Jewel of Africa (Hardcover)
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Robert Mugabe's Lost Jewel of Africa (Hardcover)
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List price R596
Loot Price R498
Discovery Miles 4 980
You Save R98 (16%)
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This is the story of Southern Rhodesia, from a time of its earliest
known inhabitants, the Bushmen, to their displacement by the Bantu;
the invasion by the Matabele under King Mzilikaze; the advent of
the white missionaries; and the arrival of Cecil Rhodes and his
Pioneer Column of early settlers, up to the time of independence in
1980. This is the romantic land of the high veld; of teeming game;
of the great river Zambezi and the mighty Victoria Falls, and of
enormous mineral wealth. This was the country that Robert
Mugabe-its future leader-referred to as `the jewel of Africa'. And
yet in this land of plenty, tensions in the mid-twentieth century
were mounting between its black inhabitants and the whites,
including those of British and Afrikaner stock: tensions which
would one day boil over into a civil war in which Southern
Rhodesia's neighbours would also become involved. The author has
first-hand knowledge of the country, having arrived there with his
parents in 1956. He describes what it was like to arrive in a
British colony, in the last decades of the colonial era; the
wonders of Wankie Game Reserve (now Hwange National Park); a
schoolboy expedition to the Eastern Districts in search of the
elusive `stone door ruin'; and a personal friendship which
developed between himself and his family's black servant Timot, at
a time of racial segregation.
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