The Chameleon and the Fly: The AmaNdebele War of 1893

The AmaNdebele War was part of the expansion of the British Empire in Africa in the late Nineteenth Century and part of Cecil Rhodes’ plan to expand two Empires: his own through the British South Africa Company, and that of Queen Victoria.

It discusses the international conflict which this expansion caused, especially with Portugal and the Boer Republics, who both claimed the rights to the region which eventually became known as Rhodesia.

Rhodes’ plans had only lukewarm support from the Briti...