British+South+Africa+Company

=British South Africa Company=

The **British South Africa Company** (**BSAC**) was chartered by [|Cecil Rhodes] through the admixture of the Central Search Association and the Exploring Company Ltd., receiving a [|royal charter] in 1889. As they were Formenting the BSAC and affliating themselves with [|British East India Company], Cecil Rhodes had hopes of enabling colonisation and economic exploitation across the majourity of south-central Africa. This colonisation was one out of many parts of the "[|Scramble for Africa]". The company's directors included the [|Duke of Abercorn], Cecil Rhodes himself and the financialist [|Alfred Beit].