History of Southern Africa







History of the Northeastern Rhodesia Protectorate, 1900-1911



Cecil Rhodes' BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY, which had obtained a royal charter in 1889, after acquiring treaties from local BEMBE and CHEWA rulers, and overcoming armed resistance among the Bemba (1899), proclaimed the NORTHEASTERN RHODESIA PROTECTORATE in 1900. The administrative center in 1899 had been established at FORT JAMESON (Chipata), just west of the border to BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA (Nyasaland).
The colonial administration was most interested in the exploitation of mineral deposits. A railway line was built, from LIVINGSTONE; it reached NDOLA in 1909. Copper mining began in 1906.
The border between North Eastern and North Western Rhodesia was first fixed along the Kafue River (1899), and in 1905 moved to the waist-line between Katanga and the Zambezi River. In an Anglo-German agreement in 1901, the border to German East Africa was defined.
The British South Africa Company, from the start, had little interest in preserving the territorial unity of the Bemba and Chewa entities. In 1911 the protectorates of NORTH WESTERN RHODESIA and NORTH EASTERN RHODESIA were formally joined to form the Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia.






EXTERNAL
FILES 		Articles from Infoplease : Zambia, History of
Links to Zambian history from Looksmart
Historical Notes on Northern Rhodesia, from Great North Road 'official' account from a 1936/37 Johannesburg Exhibition Catalogue
DOCUMENTS Flag of the British South Africa Company, from FOTW
REFERENCE John J. Grotpeter, Historical Dictionary of Zambia, Metuchen : Scarecrow 1979
Article : British Central Africa, in : Statesman's Year Book 1898 p.178 [G]
Article : Rhodesia, in : Statesman's Year Book 1910 pp.189-194 [G]



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