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Cecil John Rhodes (/ ˈ s ɛ s əl ˈ r oʊ d z / SES-əl ROHDZ; 5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) [2] was an English mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
The Colossus of Rhodes, imagined in a 16th-century engraving by Martin Heemskerck, part of his series of the Seven Wonders of the World. The Rhodes Colossus is an editorial cartoon illustrated by English cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and published by Punch magazine in 1892.
English: An elevated view on the monument "Rhodes Memorial" on the slopes of Devil's peak, close to Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa. Cecil John Rhodes, who died in 1902 aged 49, was an important English-born politician in the then British colony which is today a part of South Africa, a mining magnate and founder of the De Beers diamond company.
The colonists erroneously attributed Great Zimbabwe to ancient Mediterranean builders, believing native Africans to be incapable of constructing such a complex structure; thus in Rhodes' mind, as a 1932 guidebook put it, it was "a favourite symbol of the link between the order civilisation derived from the North or the East and the savage ...
The Rhodes Memorial is a large monument in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Devil's Peak in Cape Town, South Africa, situated close to Table Mountain. 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.
Norsk bokmål: Cecil (John) Rhodes, engelsk finansmann og politiker. Han bygget opp et imperium i Sør-Afrika. Statsminister i Cape Colony (1890-96). Organisator av diamantgruvedriften (De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. (1888)).
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.
Caricature of Cecil John Rhodes, after he announced plans for a telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo. Reason This is one of the enduring images of the British Empire and the rush to "colonize" Africa. An iconic symbol of imperialism when first published in 1892, the image remains one of the most recoginzed pictures of the 20th century.