Company rule in Rhodesia | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-06

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00:03:55 1 Origins
00:04:04 1.1 Rhodes's dream
00:05:55 1.2 North to the Zambezi; territorial rivalry with Portugal
00:09:09 2 Territorial expansion and consolidation
00:09:21 2.1 Pioneer Column
00:15:21 2.2 Eastern skirmishes with Portugal
00:17:18 2.3 North to Katanga
00:21:31 2.4 Matabele Wars; the First iChimurenga/i
00:27:53 3 Administration
00:28:02 3.1 The name "Rhodesia"
00:29:29 3.2 Administrative divisions and centres
00:30:46 3.3 Administrative posts, politics and legislature
00:32:18 4 Development
00:32:28 4.1 Railways and the telegraph
00:35:00 4.2 Agriculture and land distribution: the rise of Rhodesian tobacco
00:38:18 4.3 Immigration and economic performance
00:41:34 5 Military and police
00:41:44 5.1 Evolution of the Southern Rhodesian police
00:47:18 5.2 Policing north of the Zambezi
00:50:22 5.3 Rhodesian military involvement abroad
00:50:33 5.3.1 Second Boer War (1899–1902)
00:52:02 5.3.2 World War I (1914–18)
00:55:39 6 End of Company rule
00:55:49 6.1 1922 Southern Rhodesian government referendum
00:59:01 6.2 Self-government vs. direct rule
01:00:50 7 See also
01:01:02 8 Notes and references
01:01:25 9 External links



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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 north-east to Mashonaland in 1890. Empowered by its charter to acquire, govern and develop the area north of the Transvaal in southern Africa, the Company, headed by Cecil Rhodes, raised its own armed forces and carved out a huge bloc of territory through treaties, concessions and occasional military action, most prominently overcoming the Matabele army in the First and Second Matabele Wars of the 1890s. By the turn of the century, Rhodes's Company held a vast, land-locked country, bisected by the Zambezi river. It officially named this land Rhodesia in 1895, and ran it until the early 1920s.
The area south of the Zambezi became Southern Rhodesia, while that to the north became North-Western and North-Eastern Rhodesia, which were joined in 1911 to form Northern Rhodesia. Within Northern Rhodesia, there was a separate Kingdom called Barotseland which later became a British protectorate alongside other territories under the British sphere of influence. Each territory was administered separately, with an administrator heading each territorial legislature. In Southern Rhodesia, which attracted the most white immigrants and developed fastest, a legislative council was established in 1898. This comprised a blend of Company-nominated officials and elected members, with the numbers of each fluctuating over time.
Partially motivated by Rhodes's dream of a Cape to Cairo Railway, railway and telegraph lines were laid across previously barren Rhodesia with great speed, linking South Africa to the Belgian Congo's southern Katanga province by 1910. The British South Africa Police, responsible for law enforcement in Southern Rhodesia, was established in 1896. A number of police forces north of the river amalgamated to form the Northern Rhodesia Police in 1911. Northern and Southern Rhodesians fought alongside the British in the Second Boer War and the First World War; about 40% of Southern Rhodesian white men fought in the latter, mostly on the Western Front in Europe. Black soldiers served in East Africa with the Rhodesia Native Regiment.
As the number of elected members in the Legislative Council rose, power in Southern Rhodesia gradually transferred from complete Company rule to effective self-government by the growing number of white settlers. In a 1922 referendum, Southern Rhodesians chose responsible government within the British Empire over incorporation in ...