The Golden Republic - T.V. Bulpin

In the story of The Golden Republic, T. V. Bulpin has found not only his best subject to date, but the most dynamic theme in Southern Africa.

Here, as though performing on a golden stage, we meet some of the strangest characters that fate has ever attached to the puppet strings of destiny. The grim Mzilikaza, King of the Matabele - Hendrik Potgieter and his trekkers - the prospectors and hunters - the gaudy rogues like Gunn of Gunn and his Highlanders - half legendary characters like The Man With The Hand Cart, who wandered through the story of the Transvaal like a nameless ghost. Bandits, Highwaymen, the Rand Lords, the Gold Rushers, the adventure that raised the Republic to its peak and the complex intrigues that brought it down to the dust.

All these and more, make up the never before told story of the birth, life and death of the old Republic.