What were the characteristics of direct rule in Southern Rhodesia?

      

State the characteristics of direct rule in Southern Rhodesia?

  

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John
1. There was large number of European settlers

2. Europeans acquired large tracts of land thus adopting measures to compel Africans to provide labour

3. A legislative council was established as early as 1898 thus giving European settlers political power

4. Local rulers were undermined with European who took up Subordinate positions

5. Most adminstrators in the colony were Europeans

6. The Europeans had developed a belief that the colony was pre-ordained to be a white settler colony

7. For a long period of time, the colony was administered by a commercial company (BSAC)
johnmulu answered the question on January 31, 2017 at 12:19


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