Mlimo was assassinated by Frederick Russell Burnham, the American Scout working for Rhodes, and by October 1897, the white colonists had successfully settled in much of the territory known later as Rhodesia and Matabeleland was no more.
Mlimo was assassinated by Frederick Russell Burnham, the American Scout working for Rhodes, and Lobengula died sometime in the Spring of 1894. By 1895, the white colonists had successfully settled in much of the territory known later as Rhodesia and Matabeleland was no more.