It remained independent until it became a British protectorate, one of three British High Commission Territories the others being Bechuanaland now Botswana 

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Bechuanaland Displays a Picture show of its Stamps from British Bechuanaland and Bechuanaland Protectorate Bechuanaland Postal History Includes an article on the 1888 datestamps of Gubulawayo and Tati Bechuanaland.

(712,250 sq. km). Cap.: Gaborone. Formerly, Bechuanaland.

Bechuanaland protectorate

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2019-05-22 2016-09-04 The extent of the Bechuanaland Protectorate’s subordination to the interests of South Africa was revealed in 1950. In a case that caused political controversy in Britain and the empire, the British government barred Seretse Khama from the chieftainship of … Bechuanaland’s first exclusive commemorative stamps was a single design in a set of three values issued on 21 January 1960 to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Bechuanaland Protectorate that came into being in 1885. 2021-04-05 Located in Southern Africa, north of South Africa, Postal service opened 1882, 1st stamps issued 1884 (Stelland) The first Bechuanaland Protectorate postage stamps were produced in 1888 by overprinting stamps of Bechuanaland with "Protectorate". In 1889 a ½-penny stamp of Cape of Good Hope was overprinted "Bechuanaland / Protectorate". British Bechuanaland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, Independent Botswana plus Basutoland and Swaziland. Journal of the Society The Runner Post No 99 - Was posted by mid September 2018 - Next Issue No 100 (February 2019) The Collect 1889 Cape of Good Hope ½d grey-black overprinted ‘Bechuanaland / Protectorate’ in green.

The natives accepted this and the Khamas’ territory was renamed as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland. The Bechuanaland Protectorate (/ ˌ b ɛ tʃ u ˈ ɑː n ə l æ n d /) was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885, by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Southern Africa.

kronkoloni, och kompaniet lyckades samtidigt (1895) få åt sig öfverlåten förvaltningen af norra Betsjuanaland (Bechuanaland protectorate).

It became the Republic of Botswana on 30 September 1966. Bechuanaland meant the country of the Tswana and for administrative purposes was divided into two political entities. Bechuanaland Protectorate #121-123, Complete Set(3) Year: 1937 Condition: Never Hinged Our Price: $1.35 Item #Bechuanaland2, Quantity Available: 3 Anthony Sillery: Founding a protectorate: history of Bechuanaland, 1885–1895.

Bechuanaland protectorate

Bechuanaland Protectorate was located north of the Union of South Africa, east of South-West Africa, and bounded by Angola and Southern Rhodesia. The country of 120,000 (In 1904) with a capital of Vryburg ( to 1895), then Mafeking, was a "Protectorate" of Great Britain until it achieved its' independence as the Republic of Botswana in 1966.

Bechuanaland protectorate

In a case that caused political controversy in Britain and the empire, the British government barred Seretse Khama from the chieftainship of the Ngwato and exiled him from Botswana for six years. Bechuanaland Protectorate reverted to its pre-war role as impoverished appendage of South Africa. But there was one final flourish of the old wartime partnership between the British crown and the people of Bechuanaland, in 1947, when King George VI of Britain came visiting with his family - to thank the people, and especially the soldiers, for The protectorate of Bechuanaland: 1885-1966 When the region north of the Molopo river is made the British protectorateof Bechuanaland, in 1885, the expectation is that it will merge eventually with Cape Colony to the south - or, after the success of Rhodes's venture in the early 1890s, with Rhodesia to the north. Before its independence in 1966, Botswana was a British protectorate known as Bechuanaland. It was also one of the poorest and least-developed states in the world. The country is named after its dominant ethnic group, the Tswana (“Bechuana” in older variant orthography). The Bechuanaland Protectorate Their stamp issuing policy was essentially under the control of the Crown Agents who included Bechuanaland in the various Commonwealth Omnibus issues starting with the 1935 King George V Silver Jubilee.

[1] One of the well-known British protectorates in Africa was the Bechuanaland Protectorate in Southern Africa now known as the Republic of Botswana. British Bechuanaland should not be confused with Bechuanaland Protectorate as the former was a Crown Colony of the United Kingdom that today forms part of South Africa. History of Bechuanaland The extent of the Bechuanaland Protectorate’s subordination to the interests of South Africa was revealed in 1950.
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Journal of the Society The Runner Post No 99 - Was posted by mid September 2018 - Next Issue No 100 (February 2019) The Collect 1889 Cape of Good Hope ½d grey-black overprinted ‘Bechuanaland / Protectorate’ in green. Block of four, very fine or superb mint, hinged on the upper pair only.

The Special Branch ran plain-clothes operatives, nearly always former regular policemen, to collect intelligence in public meeting places (increasingly drinking places as sorghum beer and later other alcohlic drinks became tolerated and semi-legal). Bechuanaland meant the country of the Tswana and for administrative purposes was divided into two political entities. The northern part was administered as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and the southern part was administered as the crown colony of British Bechuanaland. Botswana is the former British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, and number-plates then used a 'BP' prefix (then BPA, BPB etc.) followed by up to three numbers, in white on black background, the plates being made in the characteristic style of South Africa at that time.
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Missionary colonial mentality and the expansion of Christianity in Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1800 to 1900. J. Study Relig. [online]. 2016, vol.29, n.2, pp.29-55.

Unknown author (‎1954)‎. The yellow fever vector situation in the Bechuanaland Protectorate*. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 11 (‎3)‎, 487 - 492.