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The British government agreed that Rhodes ' company, the British South Africa Company ( BSAC ), would administer the territory stretching from the Limpopo to Lake Tanganyika under charter as a protectorate.
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British and agreed
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British and Rhodes
Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.
In 1888, British colonialist Cecil Rhodes obtained a concession for mining rights from King Lobengula of the Ndebele peoples.
Cecil Rhodes presented this concession to persuade the government of the United Kingdom to grant a royal charter to his British South Africa Company ( BSAC ) over Matabeleland, and its subject states such as Mashonaland.
In accordance with the terms of aforementioned concessions and treaties, Cecil Rhodes promoted the colonisation of the region's land, with British control over labour as well as precious metals and other mineral resources.
For example, the British South Africa Company ( founded by the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes ) still retained commercial assets and mineral rights that it had acquired from a concession signed with the Litunga of Bulozi in 1890.
In creating the Rhodes Scholarships for outstanding students from the United States, Germany and much of the British Empire, Cecil Rhodes wrote in 1901 that ' the object is that an understanding between the three great powers will render war impossible and educational relations make the strongest tie '.
The state was originally christened after Cecil Rhodes, whose British South Africa Company acquired the land in the late 19th century.
In 1888, Cecil Rhodes, spearheading British commercial and political interests in Central Africa, obtained a mineral rights concession from local chiefs.
To start with the territory was administered by Rhodes ' British South Africa Company ( BSAC ), which showed little interest for the province and used it mainly as a supplier of cheap labour.
At independence in 1964, Zambia's economy grew the British South Africa Company ( BSAC, originally setup by the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes ) retained commercial assets and mineral rights that it acquired from a concession signed with the Litunga of Barotseland in 1892 ( the Lochner Concession ).
* March 26 – Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist ( b. 1853 )
** Nick Rhodes, British scientist
British expansionist ideas ( notably propagated by Cecil Rhodes ) as well as disputes over uitlander political and economic rights resulted in the failed Jameson Raid of 1895.
At the time the Prime Minister of the Cape Colony was Cecil Rhodes, a man driven by a vision of a British controlled Africa extending from Cape to Cairo.
In 1895, a plan was hatched with the connivance of the Cape Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes, Johannesburg gold magnate Alfred Beit, and Sir Alfred Milner ( British High Commissioner for South Africa and Lieutenant Governor of the Cape ) to liberate Johannesburg from the control of the Transvaal government.
A column of 600 armed men ( mainly made up of his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen ) was led by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson ( the Administrator in Rhodesia of the British South Africa Company ( or " Chartered Company ") of which Cecil Rhodes was the Chairman ) over the border from Bechuanaland towards Johannesburg.
In the baggage of the raiding column, to the great embarrassment of the British, the Boers found telegrams from Cecil Rhodes and the other plotters in Johannesburg.
Joseph Chamberlain, the British Colonial Secretary, quickly moved to condemn the raid, despite previously having approved Rhodes ' plans to send armed assistance in the case of a Johannesburg uprising.
These figures included Cape Colony Governor Sir Alfred Milner, Cape Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes, British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, and mining syndicate owners or Randlords ( nicknamed the gold bugs ), such as Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, and Lionel Phillips.
* Rhodes Boyson, former British Conservative education minister, who agreed with Ali G that metric system should not be taught in school because ' one deals in quarters and eighths of ounces '
The writing of the song is contemporaneous with the publication of Cecil Rhodes ' will — in which he bequeathed his considerable wealth for the specific purpose of promoting " the extension of British rule throughout the world ", and added a long detailed list of territories which Rhodes wanted brought under British rule and colonised by British people.
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