Rhodesian commerce during the Second World War. Although the country's main economic contribution to the Allied war effort was the production and export of copper to the Allied nations at a fixed price, Northern Rhodesia also revived the production of non-prominent raw materials such as rubber, beeswax, strings, iron, curcas oil and leather.Web
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In the early years of the war, North America supplied over half of Britain's copper, but by I945 Northern Rhodesia supplied 68 per cent.48 Meanwhile the size of the labour force employed in the copper mines rose from I,000 Europeans and 7,200 Africans in I933 to 2,600 and 24,000 by I939, and again to 3,400 and 36,ooo in I943 .4 As a consequence ...Web
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It discusses how government policies inclined towards supporting farmers and implications thereof to the mining sector, especially changes implemented to cushion settler farmers from the impact of the Great Depression and the levying of a Gold Premium Tax …Web
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From another perspective, the war strengthened the hold of powerful multinational corporations on African mineral development and accelerated the …Web
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This paper discusses relations between South Africa and Southern Rhodesia from 1939 to 1948. The article begins in 1939 when the outbreak of the Second World War brought mixed fortunes for the two ...Web
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I.R. Phimister. The Reconstruction of the Southern Rhodesian Gold Mining Industry, 1903-10. The Economic History Review New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (August 1976), pp. 465-481. I.R. Phimister. Gold Mining in Southern Rhodesia 1919/1953. The Rhodesian Journal of Economics. Volume 10, No 1. March 1976. F.P. Mennell. Hints on Prospecting for Gold.Web
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The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and its Impact on the Southern Rhodesian Mining Industry, in: Central African Journal of Medicine 19/7 (1973), p. 144. ↑ Cited in Gewald, Spanish Influenza 2007, p. 13. ↑ Cited in Phillips, Black October 1990, p. 82. ↑ Cited in Collier, Richard: The Plague of the Spanish Lady. The Influenza Pandemic ...Web
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Cecil John Rhodes, PC, DCL (July 5, 1853 – March 26, 1902 was a British-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. Rhodes was born in Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire and became the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 60 percent of the world's rough diamonds. At one time De Beers …Web
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The impact of the Second World War on Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), 1939-1953. 2015 • Alfred Tembo. ... sets out to explore the development of the copper-mining industry in Northern Rhodesia from the late 1920s through to Zambia's independence in 1964. In particular, he seeks to chart the evolving relationship between business and colonial ...Web
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to 21 per cent. By the end of the 1950s, Southern Rhodesia was the main producer of tobacco in Africa.6 Meanwhile, the use of new technologies, most notably chemical fertilizers and tractors, increased after the Second World War, with significant effects on both land and labour productivity.7 5 Rupert, A most promising weed, p. 1Web
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The South African mining industry grew and became one of the country's biggest employers (Schutte, ... while the latter was a monarchy until they attained independence in 1966. Second, the relative economic gains informed South Africa's cooperation with Botswana and Lesotho on the supply of migrant mine workers. ... Soon after World War …Web
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I argue that Zambia's authorities employed a dual strategy, war and diplomacy, in seeking to secure black majority rule in the region, but for mainly economic reasons, …Web
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Second, while sanctions on Rhodesia were intended to be comprehensive, the current sanctions on Zimbabwe are targeted on individuals and allied business entities accused of electoral fraud ...Web
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The BSAC was quick to grant prospecting rights to any interested company soon after securing the mineral rights from the Litunga. 2 As a result, the Copperbelt mines were discovered by 1910, but mining operations remained speculative until after the First World War (1914–1918) because the surface ores were of poorer quality. 3 However, on …Web
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Then in the late 1940's, subsequent to the Second World War, the position ... made a sudden and dramatic impact on the Rhodesian economy. Copper had ... Rhodesian mining industry and what steps can be taken to increase its export potential; there is no doubt that our mining industry will have a steadily ...Web
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61 'The rise and fall of the gold industry', Rhodesian Mining Journal (Feb. 1948 ... 68 Vickery, Kenneth P., ' Wars and rumours of wars: Southern Rhodesian Africans and the Second World War ', paper presented to the Conference on African and the Second ... social and economic impact on the labouring classes 1939–45. Africa, Vol. 63 ...Web
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Mlambo, A. S. 2009. "From the Second World War to UDI, 1940-1965". In Becoming Zimbabwe: A History from the Pre-Colonial Period to 2008, edited by Brian Raftopoulos and Alois Mlambo, 75-114. Harare: Weaver Press. Mosley, Paul. 1983. The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, …Web
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Footnote 59 In his memoir, the UDI-era Rhodesian President Clifford Dupont enthused that 29 of the 35 RF MPs seated after the 1962 election had served in World War II. Footnote 60 There has been speculation that Southern Rhodesia's role in the war helped obviate the threat of armed British intervention against UDI.Web
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Although it has been almost six decades since the end of the Second World War, the debate on its impact on Southern Rhodesia's economy rages on. Few historians have investigated the impact of the ...Web
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Copper empire : mining and the colonial state in Northern Rhodesia, c.1930-1964. Maps Introduction The Colonial State and the Development of the Copperbelt …Web
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The mining industry even tried in the post-Second World War period to cut its total wage bill by partly stabilizing its South African black labor force and weakening the "color bar," 212 Dácil Juif TABLE 10.2 Black workers in the South African mines, totals and percentages Panel A: Total numbers (yearly average) Year South Africa ...Web
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The impact of the Second World War on Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), 1939-1953 (PDF) The impact of the Second World War on Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), 1939-1953 | Alfred Tembo - Academia.edu Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer.Web
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Foregrounded by an account of the establishment of Southern Rhodesia's monetary and banking system, this article focuses on that colony's experiences during the post-Second World War period when ...Web
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Unlike previous works which examined the impact of the Second World War in Southern Rhodesia in terms of arms production, labor conscription, the rise of trade unions and …Web
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A number of police forces north of the river amalgamated to form the Northern Rhodesia Police in 1911. Northern and Southern Rhodesians fought alongside the British in the Second Boer War and the First World War; about 40% of Southern Rhodesian white men fought in the latter, mostly on the Western Front in Europe.Web
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IntroductionThe outbreak of the Second World War had profound effects on Africa. The immediate social, economic and political effects of the war on Africa were immense.1 …Web
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107 Rawlinson, The Meat Industry, 132, 138; N. Samasuwo, 'Food Production and War Supplies: Rhodesia's Beef Industry during the Second World War, 1939–1945', Journal of Southern African Studies, 29, 2 (2003), 487–502; 'Memorandum on the Cattle Industry of Southern Rhodesia, 1921', Rhodesia Agricultural Journal, 18 (1921), 237–314.Web
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Following the Second World War De Beers, launched its 'A Diamond is Forever' marketing campaign to exploit an anticipated post-war economic boom in the USA and Europe. The company embarked on an ambitious investment programme to reopen and modernize its mines in South Africa and South West Africa, and also purchased the Williamson Mine in …Web
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23 I. R. Phimister, "The 'Spanish' Influenza Pandemic Of 1918 and its Impact on the Southern Rhodesian Mining Industry", Central African Journal of Medicine, Vol. 19, No.7, July 1973, pp.143-148. 24 Ibid. 25 Ibid. 26 Z. Ndava, "A study of the 1918-1919 Spanish influenza pandemic in Southern Rhodesia," BA Dissertation, History Department ...Web
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He was also concerned about the potential impact of uncontrolled recruiting by South Africa's mines. ... On the eve of the Second World War, the ILO drew up a schedule of rights to reduce the hardships of migrancy. ... Ravan Press, 1980, p. 56; Ian R. Phimister. 'African Labour Conditions and Health in the Southern Rhodesian Mining …Web
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MIGRANT LABOR IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA* PETER SCOTT S INCE World War II, Southem Rhodesia has been undergoing an economic revolution. Throughout its …Web
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Six decades since the end of the Second World War, the debate on its impact on Southern Rhodesia's economy in general is still raging. While there is a broad consensus that the …Web
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in Northern Rhodesia during World War II. Much of the existing literature on the region focuses on African labour, yet the boom that began in the copper-mining industry also …Web
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in Northern Rhodesia during World War II. Much of the existing literature on the region focuses on African labour, yet the boom that began in the copper-mining industry also attracted thousands of mobile, transient European workers. These workers were part of a primarily English-speaking labour diaspora with a globalWeb
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In more than 150 years of mining history, southern Africa has consistently been the dominant producer of the world's diamond supply (McKechnie, 2019), producing some of the world's largest and ...Web
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