Zambia

Zambia - Colonial Rule, Independence, Economy: At first the BSAC administered its territory north of the Zambezi in two parts, North-Eastern and North-Western Rhodesia. In 1911 these were united to form Northern Rhodesia, with its capital at Livingstone, near Victoria Falls. Among a population of perhaps one million, there were about 1,500 white …Web

Farmer–Miner Contestations and the British South Africa …

Read this article. This article explores the interaction of settler farmers, miners, and the state in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1895 to 1923. The …Web

"Am I A Man?": Gender and the Pass Laws in Urban Colonial …

State writing, subversion and citizenship in Southern Rhodesia's state of emergency, 1959–1960. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Vol. 52, Issue. 3, p. 289.Web

Worker consciousness in black miners: Southern Rhodesia, …

It has become accepted by historians and social scientists alike that African workers in Rhodesia were slow to demonstrate resistance in the industrial setting of the …Web

Contests over Labour in British Central African Colonies: 1935–1953

However, as he pointed out correctly, the mortality amongst 'tropical natives' from Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland employed on Southern Rhodesian mines in 1935 was 15.90 and 18.22 respectively. During the same period, the annual death rate among all Tropical Natives employed on the South African mines was 14.14. 45.Web

(PDF) Farmer–Miner Contestations and the British …

Abstract This article explores the interaction of settler farmers, miners, and the state in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1895 to 1923. The governing authority, the British South Africa...Web

Zimbabwe: British South Africa Company (1890

BSAC flag - fimbriated version image by Martin Grieve, 04 Dec 2002. Andre Burgers' in "Sovereign Flags of Southern Africa" (1997) [] shows two images and the following text: "After an Ndebele uprising in 1893, the Company annexed Matabeleland and hoisted the Company flag over Bulawayo.This flag was a Union Jack with in the center …Web

2 Civilization and Morality: Manichaean Attitudes

JEATER, DIANA, 'Civilization and Morality: Manichaean Attitudes among the Occupiers of Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1905', Marriage, Perversion, and Power: ... Many of the white people with an interest in Southern Rhodesia at the turn of the century were from Europe, particularly the British Isles, and even those born elsewhere were influenced by ...Web

Money in South-Central Africa, 1890–1931: Africans, Imperial …

The Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) in Southern Rhodesia, 1905–1945." African Economic History 47 ( 1 ): 52 – 89 . 10.1353/aeh.2019.0003 CrossRef Google Scholar Mseba, Admire .Web

The Development of Early Settler Identity in Southern …

The Development of Early Settler Identity in Southern Rhodesia: 1890-1914 By Julie Bonello Ontario provincial government (julie.bonello@ Ontario.ca) White settlement in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, is little more than a century old, yet its development is a significant and exceptional episode in the complex history of colonial Africa.Web

British South Africa Company & Rhodesia – A Brief History

The earliest stamps of Rhodesia are inscribed "British South Africa Company" (BSAC for short) and were first issued on 2nd January 1892. Indeed the name "Rhodesia" did not appear on any stamps until the overprinted Arms issue of 1909-12 (SG.100/113e). The British South Africa Company was formed by Cecil John Rhodes, a wealthy diamond ...Web

Alluvial gold mining and trade in Nineteenth-Century South …

9 Summers, R., Ancient Mining in Rhodesia (Salisbury, 1969), 218. This payabiity limit was obviously closely related to the profit margin exacted by Portuguese …Web

The Mining Ordinance of Northern Rhodesia: A Legislative History …

3 For the modern law, see C. M. Ushewokunze, "The Legal Framework of Copper production in Zambia," (1974) 6 Zambia L.J. 75. The provisions of the 1958 ordinance are examined in detail in Williams, H. M., The Mining Law of Northern Rhodesia, London, 1963. Google Scholar This article is based on research in the Public Records …Web

IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA, 1890-1914

identified in Southern Rhodesia in this period: (1) that sector or regions special-izing in production for export-for example, mines and, increasingly, certain capitalist farms and …Web

The Reconstruction of the Southern Rhodesian Gold Mining …

Although gold and other minerals were mined between the Limpopo and the Zambezi for well over one thousand years by the region's African inhabitants, the inception of …Web

Beyond Agency: The African Peasantry, the State, and Tobacco …

Footnote 75 The labour crisis hit the mining and agricultural sectors in Southern Rhodesia severely during the 1930s, compounded by competition from South African gold mines offering higher wages. Footnote 76 Labour shortages and the 'labour question' had a significant impact: labour deficits of between 15 to 85 per cent were …Web

Rhodes, Rhodesia and the Rand

Examination of the growth of capitalist mining in Southern Rhodesia com-bined with a regional analysis, however, suggests that Rhodes-and to that ex-tent, the British South Africa Company (BSAC)-realized the comparative ... the Mashonaland Mining Regulations No. 1 of 1890 were designed to promote the rapid development of gold mining by large ...Web

The Mining Ordinance of Northern Rhodesia: A Legislative …

3 For the modern law, see C. M. Ushewokunze, "The Legal Framework of Copper production in Zambia," (1974) 6 Zambia L.J. 75. The provisions of the 1958 ordinance are examined in detail in Williams, H. M., The Mining Law of Northern Rhodesia, London, 1963. Google Scholar This article is based on research in the Public Records …Web

(PDF) Farmer–Miner Contestations and the British South

Southern Rhodesia, 1890 to 1908 ' (MA dissertation, Sir George Williams University [Concordia University], 1973). 40 NAZ S2136/2862/A, Letter from L.S. Jameson of the BSAC to J. Squair, 18 March ...Web

Company rule in Rhodesia

1922 Southern Rhodesian government referendum. Self government vs direct rule. The British South Africa Company's administration of what became Rhodesia was chartered in 1889 by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and began with the Pioneer Column's march northeast to Mashonaland in 1890. Empowered by its charter to acquire, …Web

5 5 Rhodesia 1890–1980: 'The Lost Dominion'

Lowry, Donal, '5 Rhodesia 1890–1980: 'The Lost Dominion'', in Robert Bickers (ed.), ... 'The Lost Dominion', in an allusion to William Keith Hancock's Survey of 1942, which had predicted that Southern Rhodesia would inevitably progress from responsible government, granted in 1923, to full dominion status. 21 Ultimately, of course ...Web

Responsible Government and Miner-Farmer Relations in …

This paper uses miner-farmer relations in post-1923 Southern Rhodesia as a lens to delineate the protean nature of state policy in dealing with sectorial interests of …Web

Law, expertise, and settler conflicts over land in early colonial

Gann LH (1963) The Southern Rhodesia Land Apportionment Act, 1930: An essay in Trusteeship, National Archives of Rhodesian and Nyasaland, Occasional Paper 1, 1963. Google Scholar Giblin JL (1992) The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 1840–1940, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.Web

White Miners in Historical Perspective: Southern Rhodesia, …

IAN PHIMISTER White workers in the Southern Rhodesian mining industry between 1890 and 1953 normally constituted only some four per cent of the total labour force, yet they …Web

Alluvial gold mining and trade in Nineteenth-Century South …

54 See Arrighi, G., ' Labour Supplies in Historical Perspective: A study of the proletarianisation of the African Peasantry in Rhodesia ', Journal of Development Studies, VI (1970), 197 – 234 CrossRef Google Scholar; Phimister, I. R., ' Peasant Production and Underdevelopment in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1914 ', African Affairs ...Web

Southern and Central Africa, 1886–1910

The Cambridge History of Africa - September 1985. If diamonds had begun the transformation of southern Africa, the industrialisation which followed the discovery of vast seams of underground gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, followed by the renewed assertion of British supremacy in the interior of southern Africa, greatly accelerated the …Web

Prehistory and Ideology in Zimbabwe | Africa | Cambridge Core

Extract. Zimbabwe has adopted the name of the Shona state, centred on the city of Great Zimbabwe, which flourished between five and eight hundred years ago, and whose ruined stone walls are one of the most remarkable monuments in Africa. Great Zimbabwe was a considerable human achievement, evidence of the acquisition and …Web

British Colonial History

Part 1: Papers of Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890). Part 1. ... Speke who died mysteriously on the eve of a public meeting with Burton;" reports on West African and South African mines; letters describing his mining interests on the Gold Coast, papers of his wife Isabel Burton; papers dealing with publications by both. ... Transvaal & Southern ...Web

The British South Africa Company and the impact of early gold mining

Mining regulations 1890 - 1924. ... In 1905 there were 76 smallworkers, the number more than doubled in the next year and by 1907 there were 254 mines each producing less than 1,000 ounces of gold annually. ... Gold Mining in Southern Rhodesia 1919/1953. The Rhodesian Journal of Economics. Volume 10, No 1. March 1976. F.P. Mennell. Hints on ...Web

Narratives of Scarcity: Colonial State Responses to Water

As soon as the British South Africa Company's directors realized that Southern Rhodesia was not as endowed with mineral resources that rivaled the Transvaal, they were compelled to elevate agriculture to a status where it, alongside mining, became a prime agent for laying the economic foundations of the new colonial state.Web

White Miners in Historical Perspective: Southern Rhodesia, …

Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1953 IAN PHIMISTER White workers in the Southern Rhodesian mining industry between 1890 and 1953 normally constituted only some four per cent of the total labour force, yet they virtually monopolized, at comparatively high wages, skilled, semi-skilled and supervisory jobs. The structural position of this white working ...Web