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[[File:Rhodes matabele 1896.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Rhodes and the Ndebele ''izinDuna'' make peace in the Matopos Hills, as depicted by Robert Baden-Powell, 1896]] | [[File:Rhodes matabele 1896.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Rhodes and the Ndebele ''izinDuna'' make peace in the Matopos Hills, as depicted by Robert Baden-Powell, 1896]] | ||
The BSAC had its own police force, the [[British South Africa Police]], which was used to control Matabeleland and Mashonaland, in present-day Zimbabwe. | The BSAC had its own police force, the [[British South Africa Police]], which was used to control Matabeleland and Mashonaland, in present-day Zimbabwe. The company had hoped to start a "new Rand" from the ancient gold mines of the ''Shona''. Because the gold deposits were on a much smaller scale, many of the white settlers who accompanied the BSAC to Mashonaland became farmers rather than miners. When the Ndebele and the Shona—the two main, but rival, peoples—separately rebelled against the coming of the European settlers, the BSAC defeated them in the First Matabele War and Second Matabele War. Shortly after learning of the assassination of the Ndebele spiritual leader, ''Mlimo'', by the American scout Frederick Russell Burnham, Rhodes walked unarmed into the Ndebele stronghold in Matobo Hills.{{sfn|Panton|2015|p=321}} He persuaded the ''Impi'' to lay down their arms, thus ending the Second Matabele War.{{sfn|Farwell|2001|pp=539–}} | ||
By the end of 1894, the territories over which the BSAC had concessions or treaties, collectively called "Zambesia" after the [[Zambezi River]] flowing through the middle, comprised an area of 1,143,000 km² between the Limpopo River and [[Lake Tanganyika]]. In May 1895, its name was officially changed to "Rhodesia", reflecting Rhodes' popularity among settlers who had been using the name informally since 1891. The designation Southern Rhodesia was officially adopted in 1898 for the part south of the Zambezi, which later became Zimbabwe; and the designations [[North-Western Rhodesia|North-Western]] and [[North-Eastern Rhodesia]] were used from 1895 for the territory which later became [[Northern Rhodesia]], then [[Zambia]].{{sfn|Gray|1956}}{{sfn|Gray|1954}} | By the end of 1894, the territories over which the BSAC had concessions or treaties, collectively called "Zambesia" after the [[Zambezi River]] flowing through the middle, comprised an area of 1,143,000 km² between the Limpopo River and [[Lake Tanganyika]]. In May 1895, its name was officially changed to "Rhodesia", reflecting Rhodes' popularity among settlers who had been using the name informally since 1891. The designation Southern Rhodesia was officially adopted in 1898 for the part south of the Zambezi, which later became Zimbabwe; and the designations [[North-Western Rhodesia|North-Western]] and [[North-Eastern Rhodesia]] were used from 1895 for the territory which later became [[Northern Rhodesia]], then [[Zambia]].{{sfn|Gray|1956}}{{sfn|Gray|1954}} | ||
