Revenue stamps of Rhodesia
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Rhodesia, now divided between Zambia and Zimbabwe, first issued revenue stamps in 1890, and Zimbabwe continues to do so to this day.
A Southern Rhodesia revenue stamp from 1937.
Southern Rhodesian postage and revenue stamps fiscally used on a cheque in 1940.
Modern Zimbabwean revenues in blocks of four
Company rule in Rhodesia
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The British South Africa Company's administration of what became Rhodesia was chartered in 1889 by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and began with the Pioneer Column's march north-east to Mashona
Officers of the Pioneer Column. The column was mostly South African and spanned almost all corners of society.
Rhodes and the Matabele izinDuna make peace in the Matopos Hills, as depicted by Robert Baden-Powell, 1896.
The railroad from Salisbury to Umtali—ultimately bound for Beira on the Mozambican coast—opened in 1899.
White farming on the Pioneer Citrus Estate, near Umtali, in the 1910s