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The will of Cecil Rhodes is the central theme in the science fiction book Great Work of Time by John Crowley, an alternative history in which the Secret Society stipulated in the will was indeed established. Its members eventually achieve the secret of time travel and use it to restrain World War I and prevent World War II, and to perpetuate ...
The Pioneer Column was a force raised by Cecil Rhodes and his British South Africa Company in 1890 and used in his efforts to annex the territory of Mashonaland, later part of Zimbabwe (once Southern Rhodesia
The Rhodes Colossus: Caricature of Cecil John Rhodes, after he announced plans for a telegraph line and railway from Cape Town to Cairo. Under British control or influence, 1914 This map shows the chain of colonies from the Cape to Cairo through which the railway would run.
It is a memorial to the English-born South African politician Cecil John Rhodes (1853 – 1902), was designed by architect Herbert Baker and finished in 1912. Rhodes was a mining magnate , founder of the monopolistic De Beers diamond company, influential politician and later prime minister (1890 to 1896) of the British Cape Colony , today a ...
The statue was sculpted by a Scottish sculptor, John Tweed [2] and was erected in Bulawayo city [3] centre in 1904. In February 1981, after Southern Rhodesia 's independence as Zimbabwe in 1980, the statue was removed from the city centre; it was relocated to the centenary park at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe .
Cecil Rhodes (left), Prime Minister of the Cape since 1890, was again returned with the support of Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (right), leader of the Afrikaner Bond. Elections to the Parliament of the Legislative Assembly for the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope were held in early 1894, and saw the victory of the incumbent Rhodes-Afrikaner Bond alliance.
The Cecil John Rhodes Statue is a monument erected at Company's Garden in Cape Town. The statue was erected in 1908. [ 1 ] It features a full body replica of Cecil Rhodes wearing a three-piece suit, standing with his left hand raised and pointing north.
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.