Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) Tribal Leadership Insignia: Badges of Office
Contextual Background During the colonial period around 1894, the British South Africa Company established the Native Affairs Department, an administration for tribal trust lands and local people of now Zimbabwe. In 1962, NAtive Affairs Dept. was renamed the Ministry of Internal Affairs (INTAF) a paramilitary wing of the new Rhodesian government. INTAF played a key role in the Rhodesian Bush War collaborating with local chiefs, headmen and village heads in several districts for their own interests. The Institution of Traditional Leadership The...