Cecil Rhodes
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Cecil John Rhodes was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He and his British South Africa Company founded the
Rhodes c. 1890
Rhodes's birthplace, now part of Bishop's Stortford Museum; the bedroom in which he was born is marked by a plaque.
Rhodes as a boy
Rhodes at the age of sixteen
Rhodesia
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Rhodesia, officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970 onwards, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979. Rhodesia was the de facto successor to the self-governing
Cecil Rhodes
…He was finally laid to rest at his request at Malindidzimu, a hilltop located approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Bulawayo, in what was then Rhodesia. The site was of supreme importance to Shona traditional religion as the shrine of Mwari, with this action interpreted as a gesture of colonial triumph…
Rhodesian soldier interrogating villagers in late 1977 at gunpoint. This photograph would become one of the most enduring images of the Bush War.
Signing of the Rhodesian Internal Settlement (from left: Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ian Smith, Jeremiah Chirau and Ndabaningi Sithole)
Troops of the Rhodesian Armoured Corps in 1979