Southern Rhodesia

Rare card · No. 29661

Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked, self-governing colony of the British Empire in what is today the country of Zimbabwe. The colony's territory was initially conquered and administered by the British South Africa Company (BSAC), which was founded in 1888 by Cecil Rhodes for the purpose of occupying and settling the region. Following years of growing white immigration into the region, in 1922 the settler minority voted to reject entering into a union with South Africa in favour of establishing a settler-run legislative assembly under the framework of responsible government. The colony's economy declined significantly during the Great Depression and it experienced a high degree of white settler emigration and turnover. In the Second World War, Southern Rhodesian colonial forces actively participated and the war caused an economic boom. Following the war, the colony experienced a large population boom as many whites began to immigrate to the colony. Southern Rhodesian politics were racially...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Greentubing, Public domain