Shadows in the Veldt

Shadows in the Veldt follows what happened during the chase of the last general, Beyers, of the 1914 South African rebellion. One of the mysteries that I never solved was why his personal bodyguard was dismissed and he was taken in hand by what seems to have been a gang of hardliners. When he drowned in the Vaal River, it looked very much as if he was trying to escape from the new bodyguard or was more determined than they were to get away from the English sympathisers. In fact, the whole affair is surrounded by 'what might' questions, right to Beyers' burial. The picture was reproduced in a contemporary edition of the Glasgow Herald, so even the Scots were interested in the Five Shilling Rebellion. 

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