Results of the Anglo-Ndebele War of 1893-94

Colonial propaganda drawing of the war

• The Ndebele were defeated and Lobengula fled from his capital after setting it on fire
• Many Ndebele people were killed
• The defeat of the Ndebele marked the colonization of the whole Zimbabwe
• The Africans became divided as some supported white settlers
• A BSAC administration was set up in Matebeleland headed by Starr Jameson named Matebeleland Order in Council in 1894
• Matebeleland was divided among the settlers as they took the cattle, land and mines
• Native Reserves in Gwai and Shangani were created. They had poor soils, bad rainfall patterns, overcrowded and diseased
• The hut tax was introduced and it was compulsory for all Ndebele. Failure to pay tax resulted in forced labour
• The Ndebele became peasant
• The way of life for the Ndebele was destroyed
• They were not allowed to install a king
• Matebeleland and Mashonaland were combined to form Rhodesia in 1895
• A railway line was built which passed through Matebeleland to Cape town
• The BSAC increased in company shares value and was saved from bankruptcy by the Ndebele cattle
• Communication channels were introduced in Matebeleland as a telegraph line was erected in Bulawayo
• Industrialization in Bulawayo started as banks and stores were opened

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