The life of statesman and industrialist Sir James Sivewright of South Africa, 1848 - 1916: builder of railways, telegraphs, and waterworks
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| adam_text | THE LIFE OF STATESMAN
AND INDUSTRIALIST SIR JAMES SIVEWRIGHT
OF SOUTH AFRICA, 1848-1916
Builder of Railways, Telegraphs, and Waterworks
Kenneth E Wilburn
With a Foreword by
Robert Rotberg
The Edwin Mellen Press
Lewiston*Queenston°Lampeter
Table of Contents
Abbreviations xiii
List of Maps xv
List of Illustrations xvi
Foreword: Robert Rotberg xvii
Preface xxi
Acknowledgements xxvii
Part One: Early Life, Telegraphy, and the Anglo-Zulu War, 1848-1885 1
Chapter 1: Early Life and South African Telegraphs, 1848-1878 3
South Africa 7
The Merrimans and Sivewright 16
Chapter 2: Telegraphy and the Origins of the Anglo-Zulu War, 1878-1879 21
Traveling Through the Disputed Territory 25
Sivewright and the Ultimatum 29
Chapter 3: Sivewright and the Anglo-Zulu War, 1878-1879 37
Isandlwana 41
Sivewright, Bishop John Colenso and the Zulus:
The Durnford Controversy and the Unburied Dead 52
Life in Pietermaritzburg and Durban, January - July 1879 67
Field Telegraphy and Ekowe 71
Transvaal Telegraphs 77
Sivewright and South African Telegraphy 79
Sivewright and the End of the Anglo-Zulu War 84
Chapter 4: Trans-African and Ocean Telegraphy, 1877-1885 97
Sivewright and Submarine Cable Routes 98
The Cable has Landed! 105
The Politics of South African Telegraphy 110
The Siivertown Consortium and the Submarine Cable 122
Part Two: The Imperialist Afrikander, 1885-1894 129
Chapter 5: Early Cape Politics and Entrepreneurship on the
Witwatersrand, 1885-1894 131
The Afrikaner Bond 132
Sivewright and Entrepreneurship 138
Chapter 6: Ministry of All the Talents: Political Union of the
Cape Colony, 1890-3892 149
The Formation of the First Rhodes Ministry 154
African Rights 158
Chapter 7: The Sivewright Agreement: Railway Imperialism
Confronts Railway Republicanism, 1891-1892 171
The Sivewright Agreement 182
The Sivewright Agreement and Natal 195
Flotation of the Sivewright Agreement 200
The Kimberley Exhibition 208
Knighthood 210
Chapter 8: Abroad: The Logan Contract, Delagoa Bay and
the South African Students Union, 1892-1893 219
Sivewright, the McMurdo Concession and
the Delagoa Bay Railway, 1893 235
Sivewright and the South African Students Union 239
Chapter 9: In Country: The Logan Contract and the Ministry of
All the Talents, 1893-1895 245
The Logan Contract in Parliament 253
The Select Committee on the Logan Contract 274
Historiography of the Logan Contract 290
Chapter 10: Profits, Promises and Glen Grey, 1893-1895 297
Delagoa Bay 299
Sivewright in Johannesburg, 1893-1896 , 302
The Sivewright Agreement and CGR 304
The Election Campaign of 1893-1894 307
The Sivewright Agreement and The Solemn Promise 309
Sivewright and Glen Grey 319
Photographs and Vanity Fair Caricatures Following Page 330
Part Three: Laird of Lourensford, 1895-1898 331
Chapter 11: The Drifts Crisis and the Jameson Raid, 1895-1896 333
Prelude 333
Calm before the Storm 338
The Charter and the Jameson Raid 352
Sivewright and the Premiership 357
Sivewright, the Solemn Promise and CGR, 1896-1898 360
Sivewright s South African Business Interests, 1896-1898 366
Cuish 369
The Peace Motion and the Precarious Sprigg Ministry 374
Sivewright, Poor Whites and Africans, 1896-1898 383
Chapter 12: The Imperialist Afrikander, the Cape, and
the Transvaal, 1898 395
The Progressives 396
The Submarine Cable 400
Africans and the Sprigg Ministry 402
Redistribution and the Fall of the Sprigg Ministry 406
The Campaign of 1898 416
Part Four: Resident Proprietor of Tulliallan, 1899-1916 441
Chapter 13: South Africa from Great Britain, 1899-1916 443
Sivewright s Eirenicom 444
The Sivewright Ambulance 454
Cold Storage and the Second Anglo-Boer War 459
Chapter 14: Sivewright s Redemptive Work in Ecuador, 1901-1916 465
Archer Harman and the G amp;Q Railway Company 469
The Sivewright Loan 473
Chapter 15: The Eirenicom Arrives at the Terminus, 1905-1916 485
Prisoner of War 488
The Contested Wifl 489
Conclusion 497
Appendix A: The Sivewright Agreement (Abridged) 505
The Loan (Abridged) 505
Working and Through Traffic Conditions (Abridged) 506
The Supplementary Agreement (Abridged) 508
Appendix B: The Logan Contract 509
Appendix C: British and US Currencies, 1878-1916 513
Appendix D: Vanity Fair Commentaries 5S5
James Sivewright, 1 June 1893 516
Bishop John Colenso, 28 November 1874 518
Cetchswayo, 26 August 1882 521
Lord Chelmsford, 3 September 1881 523
Paul Kruger, 8 March 1900 525
Cecil Rhodes, 28 March 1891 526
Barney Barnato, 14 February 1895 527
John Gordon Sprigg, 18 September 1897 528
Select Bibliography 529
Index 545
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