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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	South African Expansion Scheme Committee
Dates	1899-1902
History	The South African Expansion Scheme Committee was established in 1899 as a provisional subcommittee of the United British Women's Emigration Association, At the time, British society felt there was a problem of 'surplus' single women in Britain and several emigration schemes to lessen this number came into existence. The Committee aimed to expand British colonising emigration to South Africa after the Boer War. By 1902 it had set up it own committees on education, work in counties, drawing room meetings and a shipping sub-committee. In 1903 it became an independent body functioning under the name of the South African Colonisation Society.
Authorised Form of Name	South African Expansion Scheme Committee; 1899-1902

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