The Rudd Concession was a written concession for exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland, Mashonaland and other adjoining territories in what is today Zimbabwe. It was granted by King Lobengula to Charles Rudd, James Rochfort Maguire and Francis Thompson, three agents acting on behalf of the South African-based politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes, on 30 October 1888. It proved the foundation for the royal charter granted by the United Kingdom to Rhodes’s British South Africa Company in October 1889.
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The Rudd Concession was a written concession for exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland, Mashonaland and other adjoining territories in what is today Zimbabwe. It was granted by King Lobengula to Charles Rudd, James Rochfort Maguire and Francis Thompson, three agents acting on behalf of the South African-based politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes, on 30 October 1888. It proved the foundation for the royal charter granted by the United Kingdom to Rhodes’s British South Africa Company in October 1889. Rhodes’s pursuit of the exclusive rights was motivated by his wish to annex them into the British Empire as part of his personal ambition for a Cape to Cairo Railway. Winning the concession would enable him to gain a royal charter from the British government for a chartered company, empowered to govern the Zambezi–Limpopo watershed on Britain’s behalf. The Company occupied and annexed Mashonal and about a year later, and Rhodes promptly acquired this concession as well. Company troops conquered Matab Eleland during the FirstMatabele War of 1893–1894, and Lobengulas died from smallpox in exile soon after. The concession conferred on the grantees the sole rights to mine throughout Lobengala’s country, as well as the power to defend this exclusivity by force, in return for weapons and a regular monetary stipend. The inkosi, or tribal leaders, appointed a number of izinDuna who acted as tribal leaders in both military and civilian matters.
Like the Zululand, Matable men went through a strong martial tradition designed to produce disciplined warriors and disciplined warriors, and to produce a strong, disciplined, disciplined and disciplined people. During the 1810s, the Zulu Kingdom was established in southern Africa by the warrior king Shaka. In 1836, they negotiated a peace treaty with Sir Benjamin d’Urban, Governor of the British Cape Colony, but the same year Boer Voortrekkers moved to the area, during their Great Trek away from British rule in the Cape. These new arrivals soon toppled Mzilikazi’s domination of the Transvaal, and settled in the Limpopo’s south-west. The area has since been called MatabEleland; this area has been mirrored in many aspects of that of the Zulus in many parts of the world. The language, Sindbele, was largely based on Zulu—and just like ZulULand, it had a strong military tradition and was largely referred to as the Matabule, or Sindele, in both civilian and military matters. It is also known as the Ndebele or iz inDuna —both names mean \”men of the long shields\”. It is now known as Zimbabwe, after the country that eventually became Rhodesia, named after Rhodes, in 1895. It has been the scene of many of the most famous battles between the British and the African races, such as the Second Boer War of 1838.
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