British South Africa Company

RHODÉSIE AU ZIMBABWE : UNE TRANSITION REUSSIE ? INTRODUCTION I) La R h o d é s i e : une construction s i n g u l i è r e A) la colonisation de la Rhodésie : le fruit d'une obstination personnelle ; 1888-1923 a) l'initiative de Cecil b) la British South Africa Company B) la Rhodésie, colonie britannique : 1923-1965 a) un statut colonial inégalitaire : 1923-1953 b) la Fédération d'Afrique centrale : 1953-1963 C) une indépendance à contre-courant : 1965-1980 a) la déclaration unilatérale d'indépendance

Dias explored south africa, and in 1492 it’s Vasco De Gama who goes to south Africa, they call it first “Cape of Storm” and later king of Portugal change it to “Cape of Good Hope”. In 1652, Jan Van Riebeeck established the Dutch East India Company. They have lot of native living in the Cape, it’s why slaves are sell to Indonesia, Madagascar, and India to work at the colony. In 1795, Great Britain took the Cape at the Dutch East India Company, but in 1803 Dutch East India Company recapture the Cape

“Sample of Native Treaty” Introduction This document is a sample of a treaty written and employed by the British Royal Niger Company for the Native tribes living in Africa. After the Berlin West Africa Conference in 1884-1885, many trading companies were granted charters to exploit zones of influence in Africa. This is the case of the British Niger Company which wanted to impose the British presence in Nigeria. The only way to impose sovereignty legally was to have treaties signed with African Chiefs

[pic] Le jeune Nelson Mandela (ici en 1937) qui créait en 1944 à l'université de Fort Hare la ligue des jeunes de l'ANC The written history of South Afrika begins with the arrival of the Europeans.le in February 3rd, 1488 to Mossel Bay, when lands for the first time on the South African banks an European crew. The Portuguese Bartolomeu Dias, locates what he names appoint) the "cape of Storms " because of the winds which rage and currents there which are there

Causes of the Scramble for Africa First of all, there was an important economic motivation for Europeans to colonise Africa because the continent is rich in raw materials and resources such as ivory, diamonds, gold, coffee, rubber, tea, cotton, palm oil, coco beans and many more. All this products were luxury goods. For example diamonds were discovered at Kimberley in 1867, and in 1886 gold was discovered in the Transvaal. And also due to the end of the slave trade, the Europeans needed a new

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He was born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure)

Academic year 2010-2011 | The Strait of Gibraltar Steven Roland 1.Introduction 1.1)Evolution of intermodalism and logistics 2.The Srait of Gibraltar 2.1) Introduction 2.1.1) East-West link 2.2.2) North South link 2.2) Hydrography and anemometry of the Strait 2.2.1) The wind 2.2.2)The flow of water 2.3) Stakes of the Strait of Gibraltar 2.3.1) Geopolitical stakes 2.3.2) Maritime and port stakes 2.3

fall of the British Empire 2) The Commonwealth 3) Britain and Ireland? A “special” political relationship 4) Britain and Ireland: economic links 5) British and Irish EU memberships 6) The UK, Ireland and Structural Funds 7) Partnerships and competition in the European and global environment 8) British and Irish regional challenges in an enlarged Europe 9) Foreign exchange and Foreign Direct Investment in the UK and in Ireland 10) British and Irish company structures

South Africa I General presentation - 3 capitals : Pretoria (executive) Bloemfontein (judicial) Cape Town (legislative) - Largest city : Johannesburg with 710.000 inhabitants (3.900.000 with the agglomeration) - Total population : 49.320.000 inhabitants - 11 official languages : Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Northern Sotho, Tswana, English, Southern Sotho, Tsonga, Swazi, Venda and Southern Ndebele - 4 ethnic groups : 79.3% Black 9.1% White

struck oil 1908 and in 1909 Anglo-Persian Oil Company (as BP was first known) was founded. This was the first discovery of oil in this region. In 1914 the company received 2 million from the British government in return for a major shareholding and the right to appoint two directors on the board (Wikipedia). In the mid1920’s, exploration was expanded to Canada, South America, Africa, Papua, and Europe. In 1954 company was renamed British Petroleum (BP) Company. BP continued to grow