British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
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He built a diamond empire that still stands, carved his name into a country, and set up Oxford's oldest scholarship — all while seizing land and votes from black Africans in a methodical expansion of British colonial power across southern Africa.
The son of a vicar from Hertfordshire, Rhodes arrived in South Africa at sixteen for his health and entered the diamond fields at Kimberley by eighteen. With Rothschild backing, he spent two decades buying out competitors until he held a near-complete monopoly of the world diamond market, founding De Beers in 1888. He entered the Cape Parliament at 27, became prime minister in 1890, and immediately set about dispossessing black Africans — seizing land through the Glen Grey Act and tripling the wealth requirement for voting to bar them from elections. He oversaw the founding of Rhodesia in the…
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The world is nearly all parcelled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonised.
Equal rights for all civilized men south of the Zambesi.
I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. ...
You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.
The native is to be treated as a child and denied franchise. We must adopt a system of despotism, such as works in India, in our relations with the barbarism of South Africa.
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