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  1. King of Matabeleland (now part of Zimbabwe)
  2. 1870-93. After accepting British protection
  3. from internal and external threats to his
  4. leadership 1888, he came under increasing
  5. pressure from British mining interests to
  6. allow exploitation of goldfields near
  7. Bulawayo, and was overthrown 1893 by a
  8. military expedition organized by Cecil
  9. Rhodes' South African Company.
  10.