The Rudd Concession was a written mining concession or agreement that Charles Rudd secured from Lobengula, King of Matabeleland on 13 October 1888. Rudd was a business associate of Cecil John Rhodes and he obtained the concession as his agent. Rhodes had already tried and failed to get a concession from Lobengula.

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  • The Rudd Concession was a written mining concession or agreement that Charles Rudd secured from Lobengula, King of Matabeleland on 13 October 1888. Rudd was a business associate of Cecil John Rhodes and he obtained the concession as his agent. Rhodes had already tried and failed to get a concession from Lobengula. In 1888 he used the 'imperial factor' to lay the groundwork: a friendship treaty with the British Government, which Rhodes instigated by using John Moffat, son of the missionary Robert Moffat who was trusted by Lobengula, to persuade the latter to sign the treaty and favour Rhodes' subsequent mining concession proposals. Rhodes and Rudd also used deceit, assuring Lobengula that no more than ten white men would mine in Matabeleland, but this was left out of the actual document Lobengula signed. Furthermore it stated that the mining companies could do anything necessary for their operations. In the months of negotiations, Rhodes also used Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, whom Lobengula regarded as his friend having previously been treated by him for gout, to help persuade him. When Lobengula discovered later what the Rudd Concession really meant, it was too late. He satisfied himself by putting to death the councillors who had supported it and attempted to undermine the concession by granting a parallel one to a German prospector the following year - the so-called Lippert Concession. However, Rhodes managed to buy out Lippert.
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  • Rudd Concession
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  • The Rudd Concession was a written mining concession or agreement that Charles Rudd secured from Lobengula, King of Matabeleland on 13 October 1888. Rudd was a business associate of Cecil John Rhodes and he obtained the concession as his agent. Rhodes had already tried and failed to get a concession from Lobengula.
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