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Jameson, Dr Leander Starr,
1853–1917
Starr Jameson was the administrator of the chartered British South Africa Company, the organisation
owned by Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Beit that ran the colony of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). He led a
successful expedition against the Ndebele in 1893. He was captured on 2 January 1896 when the raid
he led to overthrow the government of President Kruger was defeated. He stood trial in London and
was convicted, but before the Boer War of 1899–1902 broke out he had returned to Natal. During the
siege of Ladysmith he caught enteric (typhoid) fever, but recovered. He became Prime Minister of the
Cape in 1904 and served for four years in that post. He played a leading part in the South African
National Convention, 1908–09, alongside Louis Botha, and was made a baronet in 1911. During the
First World War he served in the Imperial War Cabinet alongside his former enemies.
See also:
Jameson Raid; Ladysmith, Seige of; Rhodes, Cecil.
Reference:
Hall,Darrell,ed.Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999).
Jameson Raid,
29 December 1895–2 January 1896
The failure of the Jameson Raid to overthrow the Boer government in the Transvaal led to the
resignation of Cecil Rhodes from his position as Premier of Cape Colony but not to a solution to the
grievances of the new settlers that mineral wealth had brought to the republic. Indeed, the tentative
consensus of political views that had been forming was decisively shattered. Any confidence in
British good faith was destroyed. The raid did reveal the military weakness of the Transvaal and the
Orange Free State and initiated the substantial purchases of arms, artillery and ammunition that made
the Boers effective opponents three years later.
The exploitation of gold in South Africa brought droves of foreigners, uitlanders,to the
Transvaal. The gold, and the diamonds before that, made millionaires of Cecil Rhodes and Alfred
Beit and bestowed the power to create a new British colony, Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, north of the
Transvaal, part of a longer-term dream to create a continuous British colony from the Cape to Cairo.
Rhodes added political power to his economic influence by
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