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Hace 4 días · Cecil Rhodes, financier, statesman, and empire builder of British South Africa. He was prime minister of Cape Colony (1890–96) and organizer of the giant diamond-mining company De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. (1888). By his will he established the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford (1902).
- Christopher Montague Woodhouse
Cecil John Rhodes (/ ˈ s ɛ s əl ˈ r oʊ d z / SES-əl ROHDZ; 5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was an English mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
Hace 4 días · In 1884, when the Germans in South West Africa (now Namibia) declared a protectorate over two territories (which, along with Stellaland and Goshen, would have sealed off the Cape Colony from the north), he persuaded the high commissioner that the British government must intervene.
- Christopher Montague Woodhouse
2 de ago. de 2016 · In the late 1800s, English businessman Cecil Rhodes made a fortune claiming huge tracts of land in South Africa—places rich in gold and diamonds—and brutally exploiting the labor of the local population, who he considered to be members of an inferior race.
Rhodes tenía un concepto místico del imperialismo. Se debe en gran parte a él la concepción del eje El Cabo-El Cairo, que durante mucho tiempo inspiró la política colonial británica y que acabó haciéndose realidad a costa de las aspiraciones portuguesas, francesas y alemanas en África.
On 9 June 2020, more than a thousand people gathered in central Oxford demanding that Oriel College remove the statue of imperialist and mining magnate, Cecil Rhodes.
When Imperialism involves the perpetration of Injustice, the suppression of Freedom and the waging of wars other than those of self-defence, the true Rhodesian must cease to be an Imperialist.”
