British South Africa Company (SWM)

The British South Africa Company Ltd (BSAC) (trading as Rhodesian Mining Company Ltd in Orange-Transvaal) is a multinational company with mainly mining interests located throughout Southern Africa. The company was founded by British imperialist and two-term Cape prime minister Cecil John Rhodes in 1888. Rhodes also personally founded the various subsidiaries of BSAC, with support and funding from, among others, the Rothschild family. Its main competitor in the region is the Johannesburg-based Anglo American. It is headquartered in the BSAC Building in downtown Cape Town, in the Cape Colony.

De Beers Consolidated Mines
Diamond mining

Rhodes founded De Beers Consolidated Mines in 1869.

Consolidated Gold Fields
Gold mining

Cecil Rhodes founded Gold Fields of South Africa with Charles Rudd in 1887.

Rhodes Fruit Farms
The Rhodes Fruit Farms is one of the oldest wine estates in the world.

British South Africa Police
The British South Africa Police (BSAP) was the official state police of Rhodesia during XX-XX.

Currently, however, the BSAP acts as the BSAC's security division. There was widespread controversy

The British South African
The company publishes its own industrial newspaper, focusing mostly on mining affairs. The paper has, however, diversified recently.

KimbeRail
The company owns a passenger and cargo railway line between Cape Town and Kimberley, Bechuanaland.