Word: transvaal
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...Rhodes's dream of a united South Africa, was eager to follow-until the scandal of Jameson's Raid and the worse scandal of Rhodes's implication in it. Then Smuts shook the perfidious English dust from his feet, went north to join Kruger in the Transvaal...
...help of Dr. Jameson, now his best friend, he pushes on to fulfill his lifelong ideal-to unite South Africa, then the whole world, under the British Empire. His first step is to absorb Matabeleland, lush jungle nation ruled by King Lobengula. As Premier, he next tries to get Transvaal, ruled by the Boers, sole white rivals to English supremacy. Foiled by the stolid smugness of Boer President Oom Paul Kruger (Oscar Homolka), Rhodes allows himself to be persuaded into using force. The resulting fiasco of "Jameson's Raid" forces him to resign all his high positions, lose...
...Geoffrey Selwyn who went to Kenya in 1920 with £1,700, an old wound and his indomitable Wife Helen Eugenie. He bought a farm in northwest Kenya near Eldoret, a town of some 700 Dutch-speaking Boers who trekked once more into the hinterland when Britain conquered the Transvaal. Eldoret has one of the British Empire's highest railway stations (7,000 ft.), just north of the Equator. Only 100 mi. to the southwest is vast Lake Victoria. The climate is bracing but wet. The blacks outnumber the whites more than...
Suing for Divorce. Diana Churchill Bailey, daughter of Britain's Rt. Hon Winston Churchill; from John Milner Bailey, son of Sir Abe Bailey, Transvaal gold mine owner; in London...
Born in the Transvaal of a Dutch mother, an English father, Henry Landau's first vivid recollections are of the Boer War. Two languages were his by inheritance. German he acquired later as a boy at school in Dresden. In his travels about Europe he improved his French, picked up Flemish. He graduated from Cambridge where "scholastically I was a brilliant success," went in for engineering (Colorado School of Mines, London School of Mines). When the War came he joined an ambulance unit, was transferred to the artillery where he rose to a captaincy. When in 1916 British espionage...