摘要：Cecil John Rhodes, Southern Rhodesia.s founding father, and early settlers envisaged the creation of a country that mirrored the image of Britain in terms of its demographic composition and good economic health. Because of this, the colony invested in attracting .good quality. settlers from Britain, and tried to shut the door on settlers from a .bad class.. Against this backdrop, this paper argues that this dream never materialised as the exclusionist approach to immigration shut out many potential candidates from other destinations. Indeed, on the economic front labour shortage was endemic and the colony was never able to acquire adequate labour in the period under review
