Lusaka
A.M. Badat & Co. was founded in South Africa in 1908. Badat was a general trader. They eventually became wholesale merchant specialists in ladies, gents and children’s shoes and all types of clothing, hosiery and household goods.
The business continues to trade today.
Counsell’s Lusaka Hotel Ltd Lusaka In 1914, Canadian Couple Mr.& Mrs. Councell’s, registered the Counsell’s Lusaka Hotel. The Councell’s family seized the opportunity in the hospitality business due to the economic boom in Lusaka emanating from the opening up of the first hospital built south of Villa Elizabetta in 1918. In the same year the financial sector saw…
Wilfred Watson Ltd Ndola J H Vivian & Wilfred Watson were the owners of Vivian & Watson (Pvt) Ltd, Harare. The business dealt with building and mining materials including tools and hardware. In Northern Rhodesia, the business was represented by Wilfred Watson only. FB
Rhodesia & Nyasaland 1959 – QEII Pictorial Definitive Series Details Date of Issue: 12th August, 1959 Date Withdrawn: 18th February, 1964 Date Invalidated: 1st September, 1964 Designer: Printer: Waterlow & Sons Ltd (½d, 1d, 2d, 1/- until 1962) De La Rue (½d, 1d, 2d, 1/- from 1962) De La Rue (2½d, 4d, 6d, 2/-, 2/6d)…
Rhodesian Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd Bulawayo, Ndola, Salisbury, Umtali The Rhodesian Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd. was floated on 8th March, 1927. It was a subsidiary of the Argus Printing & Publishing Company and was established to run Argus’ newspapers in Southern Rhodesia which included the Rhodesia Herald and Umtali Post. After Rhodesia unilaterally declared…
Cairns Ltd Salisbury Established in 1929, Cairns Ltd originally was a show room employing two Europeans and an native African. It was owned by Bernard Moverley “Bunny” Cairns. Cairns was born on the 24th September, 1895 in Durban, KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa. In 1936, Cairns Ltd lent ‘one of the earliest motor cars in Southern Rhodesia’ for the…
Cooperation Internationale Belgique-Outremer (Coopibo) Causeway Coopibo is a Belgian non-governmental organisation that was established in 1962. The NGO specializes in gender, small farmers, methodological support and is limited to a number of countries. In 1976, Coopibo separated from the International Building Order and became an independent, pluralist non-governmental development organization. In the 1980s, Coopibo profiled itself as…
