| Article Title |
Famous Zulu War Leader Freed |
| Type |
article |
| Date |
1910-07-10 |
| Paper |
Salt Lake Herald-Republican |
| Language |
eng |
| City |
Salt Lake City |
| County |
Salt Lake |
| Page |
30 |
| OCR Text |
FAMOUS ZULU WARLEADER WAR LEADER FREED Black Prince Given His Lib Liberty liberty Liberty erty and Also a Pension HAD CHECKERED CAREER AS CHIEF CRIEr OF or SAVAGES GAVE ENGLAND MUCH TROUBLE Cape Town July 0 IOne One of ot tho first acts nets of or the tho new South African government has been to order ordet the ro re release rolease lease of or the Imprisoned Zulu chief This decision was waa reached at the meeting of ot the tho union cab cabinet cabInet cabinet inet at Pretoria will be given a II farm near on which ho he will live with his wives and personal attendants and will enjoy enJO reasonable liberty on an allowance of ot 2500 per annum subject to good be behavior havior was ns removed secretly from Newcastle to Pretoria who Is one une of ot the sons eons of ot the famous and therefore a prince of or tho the Zulu royal line was ar arrested arrested arrested rested In December 1907 and charged on twentythree counts including col collection collection lection of or arms Incitement to con conspiracy conspiracy conspiracy levying and making war and harboring rebels He was kept In prison eleven months before he was brought up for tor trial All charges but butone one that of or harboring rebels completely broke slown down and was condemned to four tour years ears Imprisonment Imprisonment imprisonment and a fine of or The torm torin tennor of or imprisonment took effect affect as from tho the day of ot his arrest that is Decem December D December Cem Cember ber 7 1907 so that the present release comes eighteen months before borore the natural efflux of time has hos had a checkered ca career career career reer His troubles began while he ho was wasa a mere youth after the war and set settlement settlement settlement of ot 1873 1879 by which the tho vast territories of Zululand wore were placed under thirteen kinglets controlled by bya a resident commissioner being regarded as the leader of or the Zulu national party parl was soon got rid of by the help of or his rival aI pu who however in his turn was VS soon driven away by and his uncle and guardian aided by tho the Boers Boors Thereupon tho the Natal government openly intervened on be behalf behalf half of the and restored him as the much safer man Considerable unrest imme immediately Immediately ensued among tho the Zulu tribes and and his uncle and soy sev several oral eral other chiefs were charged with being boing the fomenters of ot sedition The trial which followed was a very ory affair being conducted be before before fore tore a specially constituted court with scarcely any an time allowed for tor the preparation of or the defense e It ended in the prisoner being sentenced to death but this sentence was ultimate ultimately ly I commuted to banishment to St He Helena lena lenaIn In tho the case of ot for ten years This was In 1889 but owing to tho the efforts of ot Miss Colenso Dinu zulu in consideration of the tho state of or his health was released In 1897 not however before Natal had received from Mr Chamberlain thon then colonial I secretary permission to annex Zulu Zululand Zululand Zululand land altogether was de deprived deprived of ot the tho position of ot paramount I chief the tho colony colon binding itself Itsel to pay him a yearly salary of ot 2500 2600 not to tobe tobe tobe be withdrawn without the approval of the secretary of ot state Zulus Sorely Oppressed For several years lived JIved in his native naUvo locality of unmolested unmolested unmolested but In 1906 1905 tho Natal government govern government government ment again began to suspect su him of or disloyalty In the following year the colonial government successfully In Invoked invoked the tho Imperial aid for tor the sup suppression of ot a native rebellion Early in October 1907 it made a n like re request request request quest in view of ot possible further trou trouble trouble trouble ble Lord Elgin replied on October 14 that imperial assistance would be available on the distinct understand understanding ing that the home government would have a II voice olce in the control of or the sit situation situation situation This was not at all to the tho taste of ot the Natal atal government which therefore withdrew tho the request roques and turned to tho the Transvaal and Cape Col Colony Colony Colony ony for assistance The imperial gov government government threw the tho full responsibility for this course COUrM on Natal It had no evidence of serious unrest in Zululand and the proclamation of or martial law lawand lawand lawand and the raising of a largo large army ap appeared appeared appeared to be bo open to nd explanation save avo a policy of ot aggression and land grabbing on the fhe part art of or the tho local au authorities authorities Subsequently was waa wa arrested and imprisoned In releasing General Botha has combined a wise act of bt con conciliation concIliation dilation toward tho South African na natives natives tives with a frank remembrance of or an anold anold anold old friend After the tho death of ot Cete wyo In 1884 the Zulu nation was split In two factions then a ayoung ayoung young oung man was challenged by pu and appealed for tor Doer Boor aid ald Gen General General General eral Lukas Meyer led a largo large party of ot Boer Doer farmers into Zululand in support of ot and was routed by their aid ald One Ono of ot those soldiers of or fortune was Louis Botha Dotha a n mere youth the son of at a sheep farmer In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Transvaal In gratitude to these auxiliaries Di made mado over oer square miles of northwest Zululand to them and they thoy founded there the tho New republic with Lukas Meyer as president The Independence of ot the tho New republic was In 1886 1856 recognized by England but two years later it was Incorporated with the tho Transvaal Trans as the dis district district district General Luis Louis L Botha Dotha who con continued continued continued to farm there represented the tho district dl in the tho Transvaal Tran and some of ot his most remarkable re remarkable victories in the Boer Boet war were gained in the tho neighborhood ho he knew know so well Then was a aking aking aking king and Botha was a soldier of for fortuno fortuno fortune tuno tune now Is 18 a n prisoner and Botha Dotha a II premier and the latter has hns not forgotten tho the Zulu chieftain |
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https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6h146rc/10507485 |
