State the characteristics of direct rule in Southern Rhodesia.
Answer:
-There was large number of European settlers.
-For a long period of time, the colony was administered by the colonial company (BSAC)
-The Europeans had developed a belief that the colony was pre-ordained to be white settler colony.
-Most administrators in the colony were Europeans
-Locals rulers were undermined by Europeans who took up subordinate positions
-Europeans acquired large tracts of land thus adopting measures to compel Africans to provide labour.