Storm over the Transvaal

by Thomas Victor Bulpin

Overview

This book tells the turbulent story of the Transvaal from 1884 until 1900 – a period which covers a singularly lurid stretch of South Africa’s past. In his remarkably engaging style of writing, Bulpin transports readers back to the rugged Transvaal where gold seemed to be the center of all things. It was a time of adventure in which any man could find his golden bonanza, or die alone with little else than disappointment as company. The fascinating story of the Witwatersrand provides an often hilarious background to a history of events so important that they are still of vital interest to every South African today. The intrigue, corruption and double-crossing which built up like the gathering clouds of an African thunderstorm, eventually leading to the grim climax of the Anglo-Boer War, are described with a wealth of detail and anecdote.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781485304142
Publisher:	Protea Boekhuis
Publication date:	03/19/2016
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Thomas Victor Bulpin (1918–1999) was a writer about African big game hunters, South African travel and history. He was a well-known and very prolific travel writer – he wrote 29 books and thousands of pamphlets and features on southern Africa for magazines and newspapers. An inveterate traveller, he was the author of classics such as Islands in a forgotten sea, The Ivory Trail, Natal and the Zulu Country, The Hunter is Death and the Illustrated Guide to Southern Africa.

Table of Contents

1 The road to fortune 9

2 Changing years 33

3 The Eastern Line 47

4 The ridge of white waters 71

5 Johannesburg 84

6 Ghost towns 101

7 The fortune-hunters 122

8 The old Volksraad 136

9 Swaziland 152

10 The concessionaires 167

11 Mbandeni 181

12 Approaching storms 196

13 The Rhodesian trail 216

14 Worries and troubles 229

15 War with the tribes 248

16 The restless years 267

17 The Jameson Raid 286

18 Aftermath 311

19 Gathering clouds 329

20 Rumblings of the storm 349

21 Distractions 369

22 Ultimatum 386

Acknowledgements 407

Index 409