with a heart of gold; arrests Pringle for drunken and disorderly behaviour then lets him go (YB: 174 “Johannesburg Christmas Eve”).
Cronjé, Faan Farmer near the Molopo Drift; relative of Gert Bekker (S&H: 99 “The Ghost at the Drift”).
Cronjé, General Piet (Pieter Arnoldus) (1836–1911) Senior Boer general who saw action in both the First and Second Anglo–Boer Wars. He was in command of the troops who rounded up Jameson (see Jameson Raid), began the sieges of Kimberley and Mafeking, and was heavily defeated at the Battle of Paardeberg in February 1900, where he was forced to surrender with a company of 4 000 men, an event that badly damaged the morale of the Boer forces. His preferential treatment as a POW (his wife and daughters went to St Helena with him) has led to accusations that he struck a deal with the British; rumours that he is an ancestor of Hansie Cronjé, the late disgraced captain of the SA cricket team, are unfounded (MR: 47 “The Music Maker”; OTS: 47 “A Boer Rip van Winkel”).
cropper Cutting or trimming machine (CSJ: 104).
Cross, Wilfrid (L. W.) Trained as a civil engineer and architectural draughtsman, but moved into the world of commercial art and broadcasting; worked chiefly for The Rand Daily Mail and later for The Forum. He and HCB both contributed to The Forum in the 1940s. He is the most prolific illustrator of HCB’s OSL stories, contributing a dozen artworks to The South African Opinion between 1935 and 1945. His iconic, cubist-influenced, image of two men sitting around a camp-fire in the veld (for “Starlight on the Veld”, The South African Opinion, January 1946) featured on the dust jacket of the first edition of Mafeking Road in 1947.
Cross’s illustration for “Starlight on the Veld”
cyclamen Probably Cyclamen africanum, perennial flower, not indigenous to the Marico (L&O: 51 “A Teacher in the Bushveld”).
Cymriese Cymric or Welsh (VS: 171 “Die Duistere Vers”).
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