Sunday 8 May 2011

Fast... but black

British colonial statesman and financier Cecil John Rhodes, who made a fortune from mining diamonds in South Africa and used his wealth to extend the British rule there. In 1890 he was made prime minister of Cape Colony. The area that was called Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) was named after him, Punch magazine, December 10, 1892In 1892 an unknown bowler called Krom Hendricks was at the heart of a row that was to cast a shadow over South African cricket for almost a century
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