Company rule in Rhodesia: Difference between revisions
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==End of Company rule== | |||
===Self-government vs. direct rule=== | |||
{{main|Northern Rhodesia}} | |||
Southern Rhodesia was duly annexed by the Empire on 12 September 1923, and granted full self-government on 1 October the same year.<ref>{{Harvnb | |||
|Willson | |||
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|p=46}}</ref> The new Southern Rhodesian government immediately purchased the land from the [[HM Treasury|British Treasury]] for [[Pound sterling|£]]2 million.<ref>{{Harvnb | |||
|Berlyn | |||
|1978 | |||
|p=103}}</ref> The Company retained mineral rights in the country until 1933, when they were bought by the colonial government, also for £2 million.<ref>{{Harvnb | |||
|Blake | |||
|1977 | |||
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The future administration of Northern Rhodesia, a proposition of little economic viability without its southern counterpart, was a burden the Company now endeavoured to rid itself of. Negotiations between the Company and the British government produced a settlement whereby the territory would become a protectorate under Whitehall, with government transferred to the Colonial Office in London, which would henceforth appoint a local [[governor of Northern Rhodesia|governor]]. The Company would concurrently keep the country's mineral rights, extensive tracts of [[freehold (law)|freehold]] property, and half the proceeds from future sales of land in what had been North-Western Rhodesia. Northern Rhodesia duly became an Imperial protectorate on 1 April 1924, with Sir Herbert Stanley installed as the inaugural governor. British South Africa Company rule in Rhodesia was thereby ended.<ref>{{Harvnb | |||
|Gann | |||
|1969 | |||
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