Blue and Old Gold: The History of the British South Africa Police, 1889-1980

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In 1889 Cecil John Rhodes used to be granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria to settle Mashonaland, in what used to be to transform Southern Rhodesia. So used to be formed the British South Africa Company; its regiment of troopers raised to offer protection to the occupying Pioneer Column dubbed the British South Africa Police, the BSAP. From the 1893 Matabele War, the 1896 Mashona Riot and the Jameson Raid, the Anglo–Boer War, through both world wars and in the end to the bitter Rhodesian bush war of the 1960s and ’70s, troopers and officers of this fine regiment of policemen, both black and white, were proudly to the fore, in civilian and army roles … till the disbandment of the Force in 1980 when the rustic become the independent Zimbabwe.

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