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1853-1902. South African politician, born in
the UK, prime minister of Cape Colony
1890-96. Aiming at the formation of a South
African federation and of a block of British
territory from the Cape to Cairo, he was
responsible for the annexation of
Bechuanaland (now Botswana) in 1885, and
formed the British South Africa Company in
1889, which occupied Mashonaland and
Matabeleland, thus forming Rhodesia (now
Zambia and Zimbabwe). Rhodes went to Natal in
1870. As head of De Beers Consolidated Mines
and Goldfields of South Africa Ltd, he
amassed a large fortune. He entered the Cape
legislature in 1881, and became prime
minister in 1890, but the discovery of his
complicity in the Jameson Raid forced him to
resign in 1896. Advocating Anglo-Afrikaner
cooperation, he was less alive to the rights
of black Africans, despite the final 1898
wording of his dictum: `Equal rights for
every civilized man south of the Zambezi.'
The Rhodes scholarships were founded at
Oxford University, UK, under his will, for
students from the Commonwealth, USA, and
Germany.