Wriggling, Wriggling: Ruthless Cecil Rhodes
Author: Michael Ledger-Lomas.
Cecil Rhodes viewed the 'native question' differently from imperial officials and missionaries.
A disturbing frontispiece in Olive Schreiner's novel Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897) shows three dead African men hanging from a tree.
Englishmen in shirtsleeves and broad-brimmed hats, their grins set off by heavy moustaches, enjoying the sport.
The photograph was found by Samuel Cronwright, Schreiner's husband, in a barber shop window in Kimberley, a diamond-mining town.
The image was taken during the Ndebele rebellion against the British South Africa Company in Southern Rhodesia.
Author's summary: Cecil Rhodes' ruthless view on native question.
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