Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1896 — Cause of the Matabele Revolt. [ARTICLE]

Cause of the Matabele Revolt.

A German who has been living in South Africa for a loqg time has addressed to one of his compatriots a letter in which he gives the following as the original cause of the Matabeles’ revolt: The young women in Matabeleland are seductive, handsoine, well formed and very agreeable, though somewhat proud and wild. Many whites at Buluwayo, and nearly all Europeans in the country around, have taken some of these girls for their wives, with the ready consent of the latter. These girls insult the xnen of their own race, calling them “the dogs of the white men.” and they decline any friendship with them. That contempt has Irritated the Matabeles against the Europeans and incited them to insurrection. —New York Tribune.