Wriggling, Wriggling: Ruthless Cecil Rhodes
Author: Michael Ledger-Lomas
Cecil Rhodes saw the ‘native question’ very differently from imperial officials and missionaries who tried to...
It is hard to look at the frontispiece of the first edition of Olive Schreiner’s short novel Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897).
Titled ‘photograph’, it shows three dead African men hanging from a tree, their legs trussed with a farmer’s rope.
Enjoying the sport are Englishmen in shirtsleeves and broad-brimmed hats, their grins set off by heavy moustaches.
Schreiner’s husband, Samuel Cronwright, had found the photograph in the window of a barber shop in Kimberley, the diamond-mining town in the north of the Cape Colony.
It had been taken in Southern Rhodesia during the recent Ndebele rebellion against the British South Africa Company, when panicked settlers had laagered in Bulawayo and lynched suspected spies.
Peter Halket, Schreiner’s fictional trooper, witnesses the hangings.
Author's summary: Cecil Rhodes' view on the native question.
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