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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]
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)).
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 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.
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 image is currently on display in London as part of the South London Gallery and V&A Parasol ... The statue of British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes was removed from South Africa's Cape Town ...
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.
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