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The 1976 Hugh Masekela album Colonial Man has a song titled "Cecil Rhodes". Cecil Rhodes was the subject of a South African television mini-series, Barney Barnato, made in 1989 and first aired on SABC in early 1990. In 1996, BBC-TV made an eight-part television drama about Rhodes called Rhodes: The Life and Legend of Cecil Rhodes. [119]
Some of the carvings had been taken from Great Zimbabwe around 1890 and sold to Cecil Rhodes, who was intrigued and had copies made which he gave to friends. Most of the carvings have now been returned to Zimbabwe, but one remains at Rhodes' old home, Groote Schuur, in Cape Town.
Cecil Rhodes' Tomb. Malindidzimu ("Hill of the Ancestral Spirits" in Kalanga) is a granite inselberg and a national historical monument situated in the Matobo National Park [1] in south-west Zimbabwe, c. 40 kilometers south of Bulawayo. [2] It is considered a sacred place by nationalists and indigenous groups as a shrine to the Shona supreme ...
Rhodes is an eight-part British television drama series about the life of Cecil Rhodes, a 19th century British adventurer, empire-builder and politician. It starred Martin Shaw as Rhodes, and was written by Antony Thomas. Rhodes received its British television debut on 15 September 1996, and concluded on 3 November. It was produced by Scott ...
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston , Oskar Homolka , Basil Sydney , and Bernard Lee .
Cecil Rhodes, the founder of the British South Africa Company, got his start by renting water pumps to miners during the diamond rush that started in 1869, [15] [16] when an 83.5 carat diamond called the 'Star of South Africa' was found at Hopetown near the Orange River in South Africa.
Articles relating to Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
After Rhodes died in 1902, before taking possession, his brother Francis William Rhodes and his family inherited the hall, and erected a hall in the village in Cecil Rhodes' memory. [4] The estate was bought in 1928 by Laurence Philipps, a shipping magnate who established what became known as the Dalham Hall Stud. The house was three storeys ...