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The Independent on Sunday | March 16, 2003| | Copyright

Peter Lobengula, said to be the son of the Matabele Chief, Lobengula, who tried to resist Cecil Rhodes's incursions into what was to become Rhodesia, was one of the stars of a show called Savage South Africa. This was a sort of action-packed freak show, brought to Britain by horse trainer and circus performer Frank Fillis in 1899. A menagerie and an ecumenical African "kraal" were established in Earl's Court, and twice a day scenes from South African life - galloping horses, savage Basutos, genuine Boers, strange Hottentots, massacres from the Matabele wars and so on - were enacted with some ...

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