Rhokana Corporation Ltd
Rhokana Corporation Ltd
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In March 1931, the Rhodesian branch of the Anglo-American Company changed its name to Rhokana Corporation Ltd. They established the Rhokana Corporation to manage
Nkana mine.
Kitwe
In March 1931, the Rhodesian branch of the Anglo-American Company changed its name to Rhokana Corporation Ltd. They established the Rhokana Corporation to manage
Nkana mine.
Travelling Post Office 1925 Royal Tour The Royal Train had its own Post Office, situated within a travelling post office van attached to a pilot train that kept ahead of the Royal Train by around 30 minutes. The post office was open 24 hours per day. Approximately 9,000 articles (including Official Mail) were handled by…
Moto Moto Museum Mbala The History of Moto Moto Museum dates back to the 1950s when a French Canadian Catholic Priest Jean Jacques Corbeil of the White Fathers began collecting cultural artifacts in the Northern part of Northern Rhodesia (Now Zambia). Father Corbeil came to Zambia as a missionary under the White Fathers in 1943….
Church of Sweden Musume Mission The Church of Sweden Mission (CSM) established Musume Mission in 1932 in Belingwe, Southern Rhodesia (now Mberengwa, Zimbabwe). A teacher training school was relocated there in 1952. Many of the first students from Chegato Mission, who passed the so-called Rhodesian Junior Certificate, were admitted to the teacher training school in…
Mazoe Mazoe District Post Office History 1893.08.01 – Opened as postal agency under Salisbury. 1896.00.00 – First Post Office building opened. 1908.00.00 – Second Post Office building opened. Service 1893.08.01 – Mail service by runners to Salisbury. 1902.04.01 – Mail service by coach/mail cart to Salisbury. 1912.11.04 – Mail cart to Jumbo. 1917.09.25 – Mail…
Gregory Salzman Ltd. Salisbury Gregory Salzman Ltd was a British owned tobacco merchant company. It was purchased by Rhodesian tobacco farmers Anthony Charles Blair Taberer and his father, Tony Taberer during the 1960’s and became Tabex. Contributors James Gavin Walter Herdzik FB
The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland Mbuma Mission The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland established Mbuma Mission in 1948 in the remote village of Mbuma, Matabeleland North, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). In 1954, missionary James Frazer opened a Teacher Training Center at the mission. Situated thirty miles northwest of its mission in Zenka, Mbuma “was…