Koke, H. (2023). Unfulfilled Promises and Desires: The British South Africa Company (BSAC), Settler Politics and the Development of Southern Rhodesia’s Fiscal System, 1890–1922. Enterprise & Society, 1-24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2023.22 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Economics #EconHist #Britain #SouthAfrica #Africa #Rhodesia #Zimbabwe @econhist @histodon @histodons @economics

@jenicewild I’m sure many #Israelis, both religious & secular, will have concerns about their futures in a unitary state!

I grew up in what was the #Apartheid state called #Rhodesia. I left as a teenager in 1971 just before the civil war started in earnest. The whites were fighting to maintain white-minority rule in large part because they were terrified by the prospect of being governed by the very same black people that they had been discriminating against & humiliating for almost a century! As it turned out, even though Robert Mugabe turned out to be a totally corrupt dictator, there was no mass slaughter of the small white population after the country became an independent Zimbabwe at the end of the 1970-1980 civil war!

The white minority-ruled #Apartheid government of South Africa was able to sustain itself for much longer by directing a fear-mongering campaign at whites which basically said that, if the black majority came to power, they would all be slaughtered! Many predicted a blood-bath when Apartheid ended & Mandela became President but, as we now know, through his amazing charisma & leadership he was able to prevent that from happening!

My point is: I ‘get’ that Israelis share all kinds of fears & anxieties! I also understand that there are complicated religious & (geo)political issues that would need to be resolved! But the #Genocidal policies being visited on the indigenous #Palestinian population by the increasingly #Fascist Netanyahu government will only prolong the country’s agony! Eventually, the #Zionist #SettlerColonial hegemony will come to an end.

PS: you mention Sharia. Let me ask you a question: in what material respects does strict Islamic Law in any way differ from the strict rabbinical law that the #UltraOrthodox #NeoNazi politicians like Bezalel #Smotritch & Itamar Ben Gvir (& others) want to impose on the largely secular Israeli population?

Full disclosure: I don’t know the answer but I can probably guarantee that there isn’t much difference - especially where eg womens’ rights are concerned

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it’s WBS in Africa, too! https://snuggleduck.com/its-wbs-in-africa-too/ #rhodesia #It'sOK