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Mind Map by dottydiva96, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by dottydiva96
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Britain in South
Africa 1868 - 1902
- Missionary
- Rhodes was interested in
British settlement as he was
concious of unemployment and
population growth in Britain
- 1890: Rhodes became the
Prime Minister of the Cape
- Rhodes was against
British Imperialism if it
encroached the
independence of Cape
politics
- Rhodes was interested in
British settlement as he was
concious of unemployment and
population growth in Britain
- Routes to India
- Rhodes was trying to promote British settlers
to live in SA to keep alive the dream of an
unbroken route from the Cape to Cairo
- Rhodes was trying to promote British settlers
to live in SA to keep alive the dream of an
unbroken route from the Cape to Cairo
- Economic
- 1889: Rhodes
secured a charter
for his British South
Africa company
- 1895 Rhodes'
company had
eliminated
opposition in
the area
- Transvaal had lots of gold
- Rhodes set up De
Beers Consolidated
Mines Company which
did diamond mining
- Rhodesia was
believe to have gold
reserves
- Rhodes' charter
company
administered to the
whole region
- 1889: Rhodes
secured a charter
for his British South
Africa company
- Strategic
- Britain had aims to
keep the balance of
power in SA British
- Lobengula signed a treaty with
the British agreeing not to enter
into any correspondence or
treaties with other power without
the agreement of Britain
- Britain had aims to
keep the balance of
power in SA British
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