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Tales of the ‘Wild West’: Gold-Diggers and Rustlers in South-West Zimbabwe, 1898–1940. An Essay in the Use of Criminal Court Records for Social History

TERENCE RANGER St Antony's College, Oxford
Pages 40-62 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

  • National Archives of Zimbabwe, D 3/26/3, Rex versus Nhlabano, Prepatory Examination, 23 Sep. 1930
  • D 3/26/4, Rex versus Mcibegezi, 4 Feb. 1924
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  • D 3/19/5, Rex versus Robert Holmes, Preparatory Examination, 27 June 1908
  • D 3A9/2, Rex versus Mitchell, Myles and three others, Preparatory Examination, 23 July 1901
  • D 3/19/2, Rex versus Zandile, 23 and 25 Sep. 1901
  • S 275, Rex versus Lawrence Mee, 10 Nov. 1927
  • S 275, Rex versus Mee, 9 Nov. and 7 Dec. 1927
  • S 275, Rex versus Mapaki, 11 Jan. and 1 Mar. 1928
  • D 3A9A4, Rex versus Jowett, 11 Jan. 1922
  • D 3A9/3, Rex versus Sewell, 3 Aug., 11 Sep., 27 Sep. 1903
  • D 3/19/4, Rex versus Shauzin, 11 Nov. and 21 Dec. 1907
  • D 3/19/3, Rex versus Aaronson, 28 Dec. 1903 and 9 Feb. 1904
  • D 3/19/14, Rex versus Logan, 27 May, 4 June and 22 June 1921
  • D 3/19/4, Rex versus Dreyer, 18 Nov. 1921 and 16 Jan. 1922
  • D 3A9/5, Rex versus Goodwin, 5 May 1908
  • D 3A9/5, Rex versus Goodwin, 3 Apr. 1909
  • D 3A9/6, Rex versus Susanna Mine, 8 Dec. 1911
  • D 3/26/2, Rex versus Dubois, 13 Mar. 1917
  • D 3/19/21, Rex versus Rogers, 19 Jan. 1926
  • D 3A9/3, Rex versus Ngangaza, 25 Apr., 1 and 2 May 1905
  • D 3/19/4, Rex versus Nyau, 26 Apr. 1907
  • Rex versus Mjedu, 19 Jan. 1910
  • S 1461.1939, Rex versus Kalukango, 14 Nov. and 6 Dec. 1939
  • S 1461.1939, Rex versus Lumai, 3, 4 and 21 June 1940
  • D 3/19/3, Rex versus Ntoni, 10 Mar. 1903
  • D 3A9/13, Rex versus Lubulungi, 23 Jan. and 2 Mar. 1920
  • Rex versus Kumuyanga, 7 and 12 Jan. 1920
  • S 1556.1941, Rex versus Manuel, 24 Apr. 1941. Manuel got 3 months' hard labour
  • D 3/19/4, Rex versus Mpatiso, 20 Aug. 1906
  • D 3A9A8, Rex versus Mqibelo, Rex versus Johobe, Rex versus Siangalaba, 1925
  • D 3A9/18, Rex versus Kumwanda, 17 June 1925
  • D 3A9/18, Rex versus Namalaya and Masoja, 25 July 1925
  • D 3/19/3, Rex versus Jim, 12 Nov. 1903
  • D 3/19/2, Rex versus Matondabantu, Gentleman, John, Satinyoka, 15 Jan. 1903
  • S 1156.1942, Rex versus Simunza et al, 23 Apr. 1942. All were sentenced to 3 months in prison
  • See, for example, D 3/19/21, Rex versus Marupini, 13 Aug. 1917; D 3A9/15, Rex versus Machinga, 13 Sep. 1922
  • D 3/19/22, Rex versus Banona and Mbegwa, 13 Dec. 1926
  • S 1556.1944, Rex versus Oepele, 23 Mar. 1944
  • D 3/19/23, Rex versus Peter Swenson and George Wheeler, 25 Feb. 1927
  • S 1461.1936, Rex versus Mabandhla, 1 Feb. 1939
  • S 275, Rex versus Ndawana, 27 Nov. 1927
  • S 1461.1936, Rex versus Makoma and Mvuni, 3 June 1936. Both men were jailed for 7 years
  • D 3/40A, Rex versus Chola, 10 Oct. 1923
  • S 1156.1931-1933, Rex versus Mahamangeduku, 27 Dec. 1933 and 10 May 1934

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