A professional soldier and member of the British South Africa Company Police, who was officer in charge of “E” Troop of the BSACP. This is his diary covering the period, when he was based at Fort Matlaputla in north-east Bechuanaland and later at Fort Tuli...

28 October, 2020 /

Described as the Bechuanaland Years of Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams, 1884-1901,(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Goold-Adams)  who was at one-time commander of the Bechuanaland Border Police (BBP) and was one of those entrapped in Mafeking during the Siege, together with elements of the BSA Police No.1 Division. The BSACP is mentioned...

26 October, 2020 /

Another Rhodes biography, which includes brief references to the reduction of manpower in the ranks of the BSA Company Police following the Occupation of Mashonaland in 1890. Geoff Quick 9 December 2016 Visionary empire-builder, ultimate Kipling hero, the carrier -- for England -- of "the white man's burden,"...

21 October, 2020 /

Sir Lewis Michell was often referred to as Rhodes' bank. He not only established, at Rhodes' request, the first branch of the Standard Bank in Rhodesia but was associated in many other ways with the country. His intimate biography of Rhodes gives the background to...

20 October, 2020 /

The story of Will Longden, Pioneer, Friend and Emissary of Rhodes, and cousin of the author, who had an adventurous life including his upbringing on the Karoo, involvement in the Basuto War 1880, life on the move in South Africa, travelling through PEA to spend...

19 October, 2020 /

Written from the viewpoint of a man who held a senior post in the BSA Police Co's Johannesburg office which brought him into contact with people who figured prominently in the revolutionary project including Cecil Rhodes, Jameson (whose private secretary he was from 1991-93), Dr....

18 October, 2020 /
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