Rg rhodes biography 1880

Cecil Rhodes, the man at the centre of public debate, was a colonial politician, businessman and ardent white supremacist [1]. He grew up in Hertfordshire before he was sent to South Africa at the age of 17 to find a profession for himself [2]. While there, his company De Beers gained near-complete domination of the world diamond market, with brief pauses in and for Rhodes to study at Oriel College, Oxford.

A keen imperialist, Rhodes entered politics in and became Prime Minister of the Cape Colony in During his tenure, Rhodes oversaw the formation of Rhodesia now Zimbabwe and Zambia in the early s, but was eventually forced to resign in after the failed Jameson Raid, an attempt to incite an uprising among British expats in Boer-controlled territory.

Rhodes died in and is buried in Zimbabwe.

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Rhodes was, and remains, a controversial figure because of his fervour for British imperialism and the belief of racial hierarchy that fuelled it. Rhodes remains divisive, however, to the lingering colonial pride that seeps through British society. Perhaps this is just a result of the lack of thorough education about the British empire, as it almost vanished from the curriculum in the s after flawed attempts at decolonisation.

Less forgiving, however, is the reality that Rhodes-sympathetic views are most likely a reflection of the racism that still thrives throughout the country. The Rhodes Scholarship was founded in under the conditions of his will and funded by his legacy. The Rhodes Scholarship was not open to women until ; meanwhile, obstructions to black South Africans gaining scholarships remained in place until Online on SOLO here.

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