Queen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… South Africa effectively became a British colony in 1795. This led to great number of changes, such as the … a company, based on the British East India model (BEIC), in which this goal could be achieved. On 15 October 1889, … with various African leaders, often unscrupulously, in which vast amounts of land were acquired. The BSAC …