British South Africa Company: Native Tax Tokens
British South Africa Company
Native Tax Tokens
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Sallo Epstein & Co. Type IA – Green Similar to Type I but with Printed in Dresden next to the stamp box. FB
Education Ordinance 1903 The Education Ordinance of 1903 granted to Mission schools among other things: At least 40 pupils attended school on 150 days of four hours daily during the year Industrial work was systematically taught The pupils were taught to speak and understand the English language, and Instruction was carried on in a satisfactory…
The Goldfields of Matabeleland Limited The Goldfields of Matabeleland Ltd was a British Company that owned ‘development estates’ within Rhodesia. Owners of development estates were not required to develop the land until a Rand-type boom or a steady increase in land value made it worthwhile for the owner to sell. Revenue was received through…
Government Stationery Government Stationery Office – 1449/50/S E.5 Details Date of Issue: 27 November 1950 Dept: Government Stationery Office Reqn.: 1449/50/S Printer: John Dickinson & Co Ltd Paper: Quantity: 750,000 FB
Haim Galante 1890-1980 Haim Galante was an Italian Jew from Rhodes Island, Greece. In 1913, Isaac Simon Benveniste, who had established a furniture trade in Gatooma after he arrived in 1908, offered Galante and his friend Jacques Nissim Alhadeff a post in his furniture business in Chakari. Another trader, Behor Leon established himself at…
Seventh-Day Adventist Church Somabula Mission The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) efforts in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) expanded in 1901 with the founding of Somabula Mission by F. B. Armitage and his wife. The Armitages, early missionaries at Solusi Mission, trekked 150 miles north to a 400 acre farm 22 miles from Gwelo (Gweru). With the help…