The Zulu kings

(ISBN-13: 9781566196833 Publisher: Sterling Publishing Pu...)

ISBN-13: 9781566196833 Publisher: Sterling Publishing Publication date: 10/15/1994 Pages: 388

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The diamond magnates

(The discovery of diamonds in a remote region of the Cape,...)

The discovery of diamonds in a remote region of the Cape, in the middle of the last century, attracted an extraordinary collection of adventurers to South Africa. From all over the world men flocked to the diamond fields in the hopes of making a quick fortune. When diamond digging gave way to diamond mining, a struggle developed for complete control of the industry. This is the story of the men who, with varying motives, became involved in that struggle. Cecil Rhodes, son of an English parson, sought financial power to further his vision of Imperial expansion. Barney and Harry Barnato came from London's East End and, with their nephews, Jack, Woolf, and Solly Joel, were determined to establish the financial supremacy of their family. Alfred Beit, a money-making genius from Hamburg, wanted little more than to assist Rhodes in his grandiose schemes. Joseph Benjamin Robinson, who was probably the richest of them, was mainly concerned with bolstering his own avaricious ego. Their struggle was accompanied by controversy and scandal — both financial and personal — and evolved into one of the most ruthless financial clashes of modern history. Not until late in their lives did they graduate from Kimberley's corrugated-iron shanties to Park Lane mansions and splendid country houses; when they did, they fell victim to international charlatans — the pseudo Baron von Veltheim, the Russian-born Princess Radziwill and the French impostor Henri Lemoine — whose intrigues overshadowed their last days. This book, based on contemporary documents and unpublished material, explores the diamond magnates' personalities with revealing candour.

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Cecil Rhodes: Flawed Colossus

(Cecil Rhodes 'lived only for his schemes and enjoyed life...)

Cecil Rhodes 'lived only for his schemes and enjoyed life only as a cannon ball enjoys space, travelling to its aim blindly and spreading ruin on its way. He was a great man, no doubt — a man who rendered immense service to his country, but humanity is not much indebted to him.' The time is ripe for a new biography of Cecil Rhodes: the hero of imperialism needs to be seen with the perspective to examine the tremendous changes which have taken place since the British Empire was at its height. This major re-assessment deals with the man, rather than the politics — and shows Rhodes to be ruthless, energetic, idealistic, and very much a product of his time. We see him first as a far from amiable child, the son of a country vicar. As a youth he went to South Africa, where he made a fortune diamond mining. This fortune provided the means to pursue his political ambitions - a crazy dream to put as much red on the map as possible. In fact he only achieved what was to become Northern and Southern Rhodesia. His brutality to the native peoples of Africa, his financial chicanery, his involvement in the farcical Jameson Raid, his suppressed homosexuality, his ideas about racial superiority, and his exaggerated respect for an Oxford education which led to his most lasting memorial — the Rhodes Scholarships — are all covered in this frank biography.

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Churchills in Africa

(Index, references, photos.)

Index, references, photos.

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Kimberley: Turbulent City

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Cecil Rhodes; Flawed Colossus by B Roberts (1988-06-22)

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Cecil Rhodes: Flawed Colossus by Roberts, Brian (1988) Hardcover

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Kimberley: Turbulent City

(An immensely readable and fascinating account of the city...)

An immensely readable and fascinating account of the city where South Africa's mining revolution first began. In association with the Historical Society of Kimberley and the Northern Cape.

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Cecil Rhodes and the Princess

(Ruthless and visionary, Cecil Rhodes today personifies al...)

Ruthless and visionary, Cecil Rhodes today personifies all the most extreme characteristics of the Victorian Empire-builder. Leaving both a country and a world-famous system of scholarships to commemorate his name, he might have been regarded as proof against personal intrigue. Particularly of the female variety since, in the jargon of the day, he was a confirmed woman-hater. But when he died, many people said his death had been caused by a woman, the notorious Princess Radziwill. What was the hold this determined Polish adventuress had over him? With a passion for cloak-and-dagger intrigue which had already cost her her place in Russian society, the Princess pursued Rhodes from London to Cape Town. There she forced herself on him so relentlessly that Rhodes was said to get on a horse and gallop away whenever she approached his front door. This well-documented double biography contains much material never published be-fore. It clearly establishes that Catherine's power over Rhodes was political, not sexual. Once she realised that Rhodes's few private emotions were fully satisfied by the group of hefty young men who surrounded him at home, the Princess changed her tune. Social importunity having failed, she first demanded money, then began forging Rhodes's name on promissory notes and finally — as Brian Roberts is the first biographer to have established — resorted to blackmail. Rhodes's plan to silence her involved Lord Milner and other highly placed men at the Cape. Evidently she had in her possession documents that were political dynamite; they might, the author believes, have ruined Rhodes and deeply implicated Joseph Chamberlain in the Jameson Raid. After legal proceedings which make ludicrous reading today, the Princess ended with a two-year sentence in a Cape Town prison. But the scandal and strain of the Radziwill affair were too much for Rhodes; tragically he died before the case was over. His evil genius — a figure extraordinarily compounded of melodrama and farce — survived him by forty years, her secrets still her own.

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