id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9570 Southern Rhodesia - Wikipedia .html text/html 5773 772 67 Rhodes used this document in 1890 to justify sending the Pioneer Column, a group of white settlers protected by well-armed British South Africa Police (BSAP) and guided by the big game hunter Frederick Selous, through Matabeleland and into Shona territory to establish Fort Salisbury (now Harare). Although Northern Rhodesia had a white population of over 100,000, as well as additional British military and civil units and their dependents, most of these were relatively new to the region, were primarily in the extraction business, had little landed interests, and were more amenable to allowing black nationalism than the Southern Rhodesians. Administrative posts of the British South Africa Company in Southern Rhodesia ^ E A Walter, (1963).The Cambridge History of the British Empire: South Africa, Rhodesia and the High Commission Territories, Cambridge University Press, pp. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9570.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9570.txt