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Paul Jousse

Motswana businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ7151655 ↗
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Paul Jousse (died 1945) was a South African white trader in Bechuanaland.

Jousse was a manager for the Bechuanaland Trading Association (BTA). Writing under the name Inquisitor in the South African press, he criticised what he called the 'monopoly' of Khama III, who had bought out Garrett, Smith and Co. and started competing against the BTA.

Works

(as Inquisitor) Khama the King: Truth about the Bechuanas, Johannesburg: Central News Agency, 1914.

References

Q. N. Parsons, '"Khama and Co." and the Jousse Trouble, 1910-1916', Journal of African History 16:3 (1975), pp.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paul Jousse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.