The arms of the British South Africa Company The British South Africa Company (BSAC) was established by Cecil Rhodes through the amalgamation of the Central Search Association and the Exploring Company Ltd., receiving a royal charter in 1889. Modelling the BSAC on the British East India Company, Rhodes hoped it would enable colonisation and economic exploitation across much of south-central Africa, as part of the "Scramble for Africa". The company's directors included the Duke of Abercorn, Rhodes himself and the financier Alfred Beit. Image File history File links BSAC-arms. ...
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A Royal Charter is a charter given by a monarch to legitimize an incorporated body, such as a city, company, university or such. ...
The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as John Company, was the first joint-stock company (the Dutch East India Company was the first to issue public stock). ...
Cecil Rhodes: Cape-Cairo railway project. ...
James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn (24 August 1838 - 3 January 1913) was a British nobleman and diplomat. ...
Alfred Beit (1853-16 July 1906) was a South African diamond magnate. ...
The flag of the British South Africa Company
Africa from Cairo to the Cape (according to Cecil Rhodes) Flag of Southern Rhodesia, (BSA) chartered company administration. ...
Flag of Southern Rhodesia, (BSA) chartered company administration. ...
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Trading The company was empowered to trade with African rulers such as King Lobengula; to form banks; to own, manage and grant or distribute land, and to raise a police force (the British South Africa Police). In return, the company agreed to develop the territory it controlled; to respect existing African laws; to allow free trade within its territory and to respect all religions. But Rhodes and the white settlers who made up the company were known best for setting their sights for ever more mineral rights and more territorial consessions from the African peoples, establishing their own governments, making their own laws little concern or respect for African law, and flexing their muscles with their artillery. Lobengula (d. ...
The British South Africa Police (BSAP) was a regimented police force which operated in Britains Southern African territories such as Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia. ...
Security The company recruited its own army, and attacked and defeated the Matabele and Shona north of the Limpopo river in what became known as the First Matabele War. It was the first time in history Britons have used the Maxim gun in combat (five Maxims to five thousand Ndebele casualties). The company carved out (and for the following three decades administered) a territory which it named Zambezia, and later, Rhodesia, and which now covers the area occupied by the republics of Zambia and Zimbabwe. This article relates to the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe. ...
Shona (IPA: ) is the name collectively given to several groups of people in Zimbabwe and western Mozambique. ...
Course and Watershed of the Limpopo River The Limpopo River rises in the interior of Africa, and flows generally eastwards towards the Indian Ocean. ...
Combatants United Kingdom, British South Africa Police Ndebele Commanders Cecil Rhodes, Leander Starr Jameson King Lobengula, Mjaan, chief induna Casualties fewer than 100 Over 10,000 British Artillery, ca 1900. ...
An early Maxim gun in operation with the Royal Navy 1895 . ...
Primarily refers to two land-locked regions named after Cecil Rhodes, separated largely through a natural border provided by the Zambezi River. ...
Politics In 1914, the royal charter was renewed, on condition that settlers in Rhodesia were given increased political rights. In 1922, the company entered negotiations with the government of the Union of South Africa, which was keen to take over the territory - a plan foiled by the colony's settlers, who voted against incorporation with South Africa. In 1923, Britain chose not to renew the BSA Co's charter, and instead accorded 'self-governing' colony status to Southern Rhodesia (today, Zimbabwe) and protectorate status to Northern Rhodesia (today, Zambia). This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British colony situated immediately to the north of South Africa, known today as Zimbabwe. ...
This article is about states protected and/or dominated by a foreign power. ...
Flag of Northern Rhodesia. ...
Profits The BSAC was not able to generate enough profit to pay its shareholders dividends until after it lost direct administrative control over Rhodesia in 1923. In 1933, the BSAC sold its mineral exploration rights south of the Zambezi to the Southern Rhodesian government, but retained rights over Northern Rhodesian mineral rights, as well as the company's vast interests in mining, railways, real estate and agriculture across southern Africa. Categories: Africa geography stubs | Southern Africa ...
Merger In 1964, the company was forced to hand over its mineral rights to the government of Zambia, and the following year, the British South Africa Company merged with the Central Mining & Investment Corporation Ltd and The Consolidated Mines Selection Company Ltd to form a mining and industrial company known as Charter Consolidated Ltd, of which slightly over one-third of the shares were owned by the British/South African mining company Anglo American plc. Anglo American plc is a world-wide group of companies, originally founded in South Africa as a mining enterprise but now extending into other areas. ...
References - Rasmussen, R. K., & Rubert, S. C., 1990. A Historical Dictionary of Zimbabwe, Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, United States of America.
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