He was one of the founders of the British South Africa Company, and held large interests in the Rhodesia Railways, the Bechuanaland Railway Trust, and the Consolidated Company Bultfontein Mine.

Explore the pivotal role of rail infrastructure in shaping South Africa's economic and social landscape, from its inception ...

In the resulting uproar, the British government peremptorily banished Seretse from Bechuanaland in an attempt to appease the outraged segregationists in neighboring South Africa. “A disreputable ...

Meanwhile Seretse was working to waken Bechuanaland politically. He formed the multiracial Bechuanaland Democratic Party, opposing Black Nationalist Phillip Matante (“the Lion of Bechuanaland ...

But the limited freedoms Bechuanaland had were under threat from colonialist Cecil Rhodes, the prime minister of the Cape Colony, now South Africa. “Cecil Rhodes wanted to build a railway from ...

In ‘Morafe: Person, Family and Nation in Colonial Bechuanaland, 1880s-1950s’, Khumisho Moguerane explores two generations of the prominent Molema family. They were ‘border people’ who ...

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1954-07-01/native-administration-british-african-territories-part-v-highhttps://www.foreignaffairs ...