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Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia: Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection
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About Sunshine And Storm In Rhodesia: Being A Narrative
During the brutal 1896 Matabele tribal uprising in Rhodesia, Selous the famous South African big-game hunter and pioneer led a group of pioneers turned irregular soldiers in their desperate quest for survival against overwhelming odds. In March 1896, the Ndebele (Matabele) revolted against the authority of the British South Africa Company in what is now celebrated in Zimbabwe as the First Chimurenga, also called The Second Matabele War, or the Matabeleland Rebellion. In this uprising the Ndebele people waged a war of extermination against the British South Africa Company and all British and Boer pioneers in the area. As narrated by Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 –1917) in his 1896 book “Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia,” during the Matabele uprising after abandoning his homestead in Rhodesia he took the command of a volunteer force, constructed forts, and took part in numerous military engagements. "Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia" is the work of a man who probably knew the country more intimately and understood its natives better than anyone else. He tells us the story of a struggle fuller of tragic incidents and hairbreadth escapes than any equally brief period of Colonial history. The book begins with a short sketch of the author's life at Essexvale, a farm some 35 miles to the south-east of Buluwayo, at a time when the natives were friendly, the prospects bright, and only one prophet foretold a revolt. The natives on the whole seemed satisfied. Selous says that the Chartered Company was governing the natives "as humanely as possible, but, after all, in their own interests, instead of in the interests of the conquered people." He denies that any systematic cruelty, injustice or oppression was being inflicted. Some of the reforms enforced, he admits, were "very unpalatable to the conquered." He tells us that "no impartial critic can deny that the confiscation of so large a number of their cattle, and more especiall
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