Figure 1.--These English Children are at Rhodesia House in 1950, preparing to leavefor Rhodesia under the Fairbrridge transport scheme. |
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Kingley Fairbridge at first envisioned tansporting English children to Rodesia to help settle the Veld. This was an essentially racist scheme. Although I am unsure to what extent racism played into Fairbridge's thinking. We do know that humanitarian concerns over the plight of the indigent English children motivated him. Of course there were native peoples in both Rhodesia and South Africa that had claim to the land. Through a variety of legal subtrfuges, during the colonial era, the native peoples lost their claims to the land. Colonial officials at first were not interested in the Fairbreidge transport scheme. The first party of 18 Fairbridge boys sailed from Southampton on November 18, 1946 on the Carnarvon Castle and arrived in Cape Town, South Africa on December 4. Where they traveled on to Fairbridge Memorial College in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. I am not sure when Fairbridge College was founded. Nor do we know at this time how many British children were eventually transported to Rhodesia.
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