dubdobdee | wiki-illiam q4!

4.
i. after which action were eleven decorated for valour?
ii. where did the Tidy Pachyderm start his journey to the Limpopo?
iii. who was described by James Arcoll as a sort of black Napoleon?
iv. who replaced Cartwright and caused a quarter of a century’s isolation?
v. who acquainted the Tswana people with the confusing story of Egeon’s twin sons?
vi. who loved honey with a passion that we, with a sweet-shop on every corner, cannot hope to
understand?
vii. who regretted lack of achievement, with so large an outstanding agenda?
viii. who was the victim of a tapeworm’s instruction to a schizophrenic?
ix. which flagship was accompanied by Reijger and Goede Hoope?
x. where was government conducted from a railway siding?

the rules as they have evolved:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes!
b: say if googled or not, and leave a bit of a while for people to answer non-googlingly
c: you're obviously allowed to look ahead at future questions as (first) this was published in a national newspaper and i can't stop you and (second) i can't stop ME either, and have done exactly this

SPOILERS viz my first stabs at answers
ii: (w/o google) is surely related to the elephant's child in the just so stories viz the "grey green greasy limpopo, all set about with fever trees" -- but i will have to look up where he started
iii: my first thought was toussaint l'ouverture, but i think he was the leader of the "Black Jacobins", which doesn't quite tally
vi: might be pooh bear??
anyway i *THINK* the theme is children's books! which if so i should know more about it!