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Southern Rhodesia won the rights to elect its own thirty-member legislature, premier, and cabinet-although the British Crown retained a formal veto over measures affecting natives and dominated foreign policy.

White citizens, meanwhile, provided most of the colony's administrative, industrial, scientific, and farming skills in addition to owning half the land.

They also established a relatively balanced economy, transforming what was once a primary producer dependent on backwoods farming into an industrial giant which spawned a strong manufacturing sector, iron and steel industries, and modern mining ventures.

These economic successes owed little to foreign aid.