South AfricaandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
2 SHARED EVENTSZimbabwe

Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · ZAF LEFT · ZWE RIGHT

1. 1888–1890

   Rudd Concession and the Pioneer Column

   Lobengula signed the 1888 Rudd Concession granting mining rights to Rhodes's agents; Rhodes won a royal charter in 1889 and in 1890 the British South Africa Company's Pioneer Column occupied Mashonaland, raising the flag at Fort Salisbury on 13 September.

   Colonisation · from the Zimbabwe chronicle · The Ndebele kingdom and British conquest · REFS 3 — Zimbabwe: History, Lobengula, Pioneer Column

2. 1893

   First Matabele War

   Company forces invaded and destroyed the Ndebele kingdom; Lobengula fled and soon died, and the British South Africa Company annexed Matabeleland.

   War & Rupture · from the Zimbabwe chronicle · The Ndebele kingdom and British conquest · REFS 2 — Lobengula, Zimbabwe: History