AFRICAN PORTRAITS

AFRICAN PORTRIATS

Stuart Cloete, Hardback, with dust jacket. Very Good Condition. Published 1969.

In this book Stuart Clocte vividlytells the story of the three most dominantpersonalities in Southem Africa at the end ofthe last century: Rhodes. Kruger, andLobengula.

No three persons could havecome from more diversified backgrounds:Rhodes the clergyman's son with aneducation befitting his station in life, Kruger the trekker's son who had a Bible as is only textbook, and Lobengula, son of the King of the Matabele, Mosilikatse, who had had no education whatsoever. Each, in his own way, strove after an ideal,and each was doomed to bitter disappointment. Rhodes, struggling for breath on his deathbed at his seaside cottage at St James, realised that time had run out - the time he needed to change the colour of the map of Africa, from the Cape to Cairo, to the red shade which would proclaim it British territory. Kruger, breathing his last in his villa at Clarens in Switzerland and resigned to the will of the Lord in whom he had always trusted so implicitly, sadly accepted the presence of the Union Jack in Pretoria while, at the same time, rejoicing in the certain knowledge that his burghers had not let him down but had fought manfully to the bitter end, And for Lobengula, dying of fever and the effects of the white man's brandy on the banks of a Rhodesian river, the only consolation he could give to those followers who had stayed with him was to advise them to return and throw themselves on the mercy of the white men- on Rhodes and the Chartered Company, on those who had taken their country away from them.

What makes Africar Portraits such fascinating reading is that here we have well- researched, interesting history told in an eminently readable manner by one of South Africa's most distinguished authors.

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