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Salisbury
Allen Wack and Shepherd started as a warehousing company in the 1890’s in Rhodesia.
By the 1950’s they provided services as a travel bureau, forwarding agent, shipping agent, customs clearing agent, insurance and warehousing.
They now trade as Allen Wack & Shepherd Global Freight (Pvt) Ltd.
London
The Alliance British and Foreign Life and Fire Assurance Company Ltd commenced business on 23 March 1824 and was based at New Court for its first two years.
Business concentration within the insurance industry in the second half of the 20th century brought the Alliance to merge with the Sun Insurance Company in 1959 to form Sun Alliance Insurance Limited.
Bulawayo
Joseph Ginsberg was born in London 10 November 1894. He left London to live in Rhodesia in 1920 where established J Ginsberg & Co Ltd in the same year. Previously married to Gertrude Ginsberg with two children, Faye and Louis, he later married Mabel Bones Ginsberg (b.1909) on 28 January 1952. Ginsberg died 28 November 1982.
The business provided services as a land and estate agent, business brokers, company secretaries and valuations.
London
Pearl Assurance Company was founded in 1857 as The Pearl Loan Company. It changed its name to The Pearl Assurance Company in 1914.
On 1 April 1960, Pearl Assurance Company took over most of the British Commonwealth Insurance Company’s activities in the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland, including the business arising from the association with the Commonwealth and Commonwealth Permanent Building Societies in Southern and Northern Rhodesia.
The Pearl Assurance building was the first large building to be erected in Salibsury which had been designed by a female architect, and had a number of innovative features, but its sign, The Pearl, was significant, and still there, although the company is no more.
In 1990, the company was acquired by the Australian insurance group, AMP, and in 2003, Pearl, NPI and London Life were demerged from AMP to become part of Henderson Group.
In 2005, the Pearl Group was bought from Henderson Group by Sun Capital Partners and TDR Capital. It acquired Resolution Life in 2008 (including its Phoenix Assurance operations). In 2009, the business was acquired by the Liberty Acquisition Holdings (International) Company, which subsequently renamed itself Pearl Group.
In 2010, Pearl Group changed its name to Phoenix Group Holdings. In March 2014, the business sold Ignis Asset Management to Standard Life Investments, the asset management arm of Standard Life.
1901-1974
Alexander Ian Jaffey was a stock broker with the Rhodesian Stock Exchange, based in Bulawayo.
He was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1901. On 8 September 1927 he married Florence Hilda Jaffey in Johannesburg, South Africa, and had two sons; Julian Michael and Anthony Joseph Ellis Jaffey.
He died 10 May 1974.
Training Depot
The Training Depot of the Royal Rhodesia Regiment was opened in October 1955, at Llewellin Barracks, Heany. Here, trainees under went four and a half months of continuous training under regular instructors of the Federal Army. On completion of this period, trainees were posted to the Territorial Force Units to complete their Peace Training Liability.
The Rhodesia Regiment (RR) was one of the oldest and largest regiments in the Rhodesian Army. It served on the side of the United Kingdom in the Second Boer War and the First and Second World Wars and served the Republic of Rhodesia in the Rhodesian Bush War.
During the First World War, an affiliation was formed between the King’s Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC) and the Rhodesia Regiment, with a platoon of Rhodesians serving in the 2 KRRC. In addition to the similar cap badge with a red backing, the affiliation with the KRRC led to many similarities in uniform as a rifle regiment with private soldiers holding the title of “Rifleman”.
In 1947, as a result of its service in World War II the regiment was granted the title of Royal Rhodesia Regiment by King George VI, who became the regiment’s first Colonel-in-Chief.
Following the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965, the Royal Rhodesia Regiment (RRR) consisted of a number of territorial army battalions (1RR, 2RR, 4RR, 5RR, 6RR, 8RR, 9RR, 10RR) and 6 national service independent companies (1 Indep Coy RR, 2 Indep Coy RR, 3 Indep Coy RR, 4 Indep Coy RR, 5 Indep Coy RR and 6 Indep Coy, RR) as well as a training depot, DRR, which received and trained most of the Rhodesian Army national servicemen from the 1950s onwards. 3RR and 7RR were Northern Rhodesian (Zambia) battalions that became part of the Zambian military. After national service they were posted to a territorial battalion in or close to the town or city they hailed from.
When Rhodesia became a republic in 1970, the regiment’s title reverted to Rhodesia Regiment with Queen Elizabeth II resigning her position as Colonel-in-Chief.
Mutare
Manicaland Philatelic Society was based in Mutare (Umtali). It wes established in 1960 and produced the publication Border Post which later changed to the Manicaland Philatelic Society – News Letter.
1956 – Cigarette Surtax Duty
