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Cecil Rhodes

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Cecil John Rhodes

British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)

British South Africa Company

former mining and colonial enterprises company

Rhodes Scholarship

international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford

Cape to Cairo Railway

Proposed but never completed railway connecting British colonies in eastern Africa

Catherine Radziwiłł

Polish noble (1858–1941)

historical region in Africa, today part of Zimbabwe and Zambia

estate: Dutch East India Company granary → Hester Anna van der Byl / Coetsee → Cecil Rhodes / Sir Herbert Baker → South African President official residence → museum

part of the University of Oxford

Mandela Rhodes Scholarship

scholarship for postgraduate study for African citizens

British soldier and colonial governor

Siege of Kimberley

1899 event during the Second Boer War

Statue of Jan van Riebeeck

statue in Cape Town, South Africa