Corpus ID: 10937203; The "Spanish" influenza pandemic of 1918 and its impact on the Southern Rhodesian mining industry. @article{Phimister1973TheI, title={The "Spanish" influenza pandemic of 1918 and its impact on the Southern Rhodesian mining industry.}, author={Ian R. Phimister}, journal={The Central African journal of medicine}, …

The company retained its commercial assets, however, and its mineral rights in Northern Rhodesia became a valuable source of revenue following the development of the copper-mining industry in that territory between World Wars I and II. On the eve of Zambia's independence in 1964, the company was forced, by the threat of expropriation, to ...

Abstract. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the long and entangled relationship of farmers, miners and the state in Southern Rhodesia from 1895 when the Mines and Minerals Act was promulgated to promotethe growth of the country's mining industry. The study ends in 1961 when an amendment tothis same Act was crafted after the …

the establishment of a new colonial mining policy following the victory of the British Labour party in post-war elections. The establishment of the Central African Federation, between Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Southern Rhodesia, in 1953, coincided with a boom in copper prices on account of rearma-ment programmes triggered by the Korean War.

Grounded on such realistic appraisals, South African capital began to penetrate. the Southern Rhodesian gold mining industry, most noticeably between i908 and i9iI. South African capital had, of course, been present in Southern Rhodesia from. II 890 and some continued to be invested in the years before reconstruction.

South Africa already. This led to the formation of Northern and Southern Rhodesia as new British colonies, thereby joining others like South Africa. Both countries had more similarities than being a British colony and having a mining industry; Southern Rhodesia and South Africa both possessed a large white settler community.

Since then, the mining industry has become hugely important to the country, contributing roughly 202 billion South African Rand (roughly 10.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2023 to South Africa's ...

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.

SOUTHERN RHODESIA, I900-I920 BY CHARLES VAN ONSELEN ... 9 Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Mining Industry of Southern Rhodesia (I945), 21. 10 Ibid. 3. 11 A number of attempts were made to reduce African wages. The most important of these were made in I898, I9OI and I906. See, for example, Rhodesia Chamber of Mines

c. 9oo00-1933*. PETER RICHARDSON. The year 1975-6 was a good one for the students of central and southern African mining history. The latter part of 1975 saw the completion of the doctoral thesis upon which 'Chibaro' is based, together with I. R. Phimister's dissertation on the mining industry of Southern Rhodesia.' 1976 witnessed the ...

The mining industry of Southern Rhodesia by, 1961, Seventh Commonwealth Mining and Metallurgical Congress edition, in English

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That man was Cecil Rhodes, who founded the colonies of Southern and Northern Rhodesia, renamed Zambia in 1964 and Zimbabwe in 1980. Born in 1853 at Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire, Cecil was the sixth child of the Reverend Francis and Louisa Rhodes. A sickly child, Cecil suffered generally from a weak chest and in particular was …

It is the purpose of this article to examine the crucial "reconstruction era" of Southern Rhodesian gold mining, not only because it was then that the industry was first placed …

The Reconstruction of the Southern Rhodesian Gold Mining Industry, 1903–10 - PHIMISTER - 1976 - The Economic History Review - Wiley Online Library. I.R. …

Northern Rhodesia were employed outside the territory mainly in Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, Tanganyika, and the Belgian Congo. Until 1925, a smaller number was employed within the territory but with the development of copper mining during the late 1920s, the local market came to absorb a larger proportion of the labour force.

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By the end of the 1930s, Northern Rhodesian copper mining on the Copperbelt was booming. According to Abi, investment capital in the copper mining industry on the Copperbelt in Northern Rhodesia, in the 1930s, especially after the Great Depression was increased and high prices again stimulated mining due to lower labour and production …

British South Africa Company reported that payments of mining royalties in. Northern Rhodesia had amounted to 160 million pounds. Of this sum, the N.R.G. had received 79 million, either as taxes or as part of its own share of royalties since 1950, while the British government had received 12 million in taxes.

The way in which the B.S.A. Company and the Southern Rhodesian gold mining industry moved to implement these broad imperatives was, of course, intimately connected with appreciation of the region's geological constraints. ... 'The gold output and Mining activity of Southern Rhodesia, 1907 to 1932', . process, as the grade is a function of the ...

Even though mining companies did not have to resort to proactive recruitment, they did complain at times about the government failing to raise higher barriers on outmigration to Southern Rhodesia and South Africa.17 Like in the other cases studied here, most of the African workers did not originate from the areas immediately surrounding the ...

REVIEW ARTICLE: AFRICAN MINE LABOUR IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA. 1976, p. 322. The development of an African working class has received some attention from historians and anthropologists. 1 However, Van Onselen's study of African mine labour in Southern Rhodesia is of exceptional importance in that it relates the economic history of the gold …

This paper uses miner-farmer relations in post-1923 Southern Rhodesia as a lens to delineate the protean nature of state policy in dealing with sectorial interests of the two foremost primary …

Worker consciousness in black miners: Southern Rhodesia, 1900–1920 | The Journal of African History | Cambridge Core.

Large mining companies are reported to have invested about £1 million in exploration in the first decade of the twentieth century (Frankel, 1938:248). Available estimates suggest that in the decade between 1921 and 1931, a total of £25 million was invested in the copper industry in Northern Rhodesia (ibid.: 162).

on mining, industry, agriculture, and other forms of enterprise. The total volume of mining output in Southern Rhodesia was at its lowest in 193I, when it almost fell to the level of 1923. However, in the follow-ing year there was a marked increase, the pre-depression level was almost reached, and from then on the value of minerals extracted rose

3. Southern Rhodesia, Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Mining Industry of Southern Rhodesia (1945), p. 22. 4. For a more detailed discussion of the response of …

Abstract. This paper uses miner-farmer relations in post-1923 Southern Rhodesia as a lens to delineate the protean nature of state policy in dealing with sectorial interests of the two foremost primary …

»N. H. Wilson, The Mining Industry of Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, 1933), 18. s For fuller discussion, see Phimister, 'The Reconstruction of the Southern Rhodesian Gold …

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 ...