CECIL RHODES AND THE BRITISH PRESENCE IN AFRICABY CASSIDY GAZAWAY

British in South Africa

1795- British capture the Cape Colony 1807- Parliament ordered the British to

stop participation in the slave trade all around the world

1810- British missionaries go through S.A

1828- Ordinance 50 1833- No slavery allowed in the empire

CECIL JOHN RHODES

BORN: JULY 5TH, 1853 IN BISHOP’S STANFORD, ENGLAND

DIED: MARCH 26TH, 1902 IN MUIZENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

BUSINESS MAN, OWNER OF THE DE BEERS MINING COMPANY, PHILANTHROPIST, AND IMPERALIST

WHO IS THIS MAN?

EARLY LIFE OF CECIL RHODES BORN ON JULY 5TH, 1853 ONE OF 9 SONS BECAUSE OF HIS HEALTH ISSUES,

HE DID NOT ATTEND SCHOOL AS A CHILD

SENT TO AFRICA AT 16 TO WORK ON A COTTON FARM

WENT THERE WITH HIS BROTHER, HERBERT

“DIAMOND FEVER”1871: DIAMOND FEVER SPREAD CECIL AND HERBERT LEFT THE COTTON

FARM TO MINE FOR DIAMONDSWENT TO KIMBERELY, SOUTH AFRICACECIL WORKED IN AN OPEN PIT MINE

AND SUPERVISED HIS OWN WORKERSHE SORTED DIAMONDS HIMSELF WITH

HIS WORKERS

GETTING STARTED MASTERED MINING TECHNIQUES WHILE WORKING

MADE MONEY BY INVESTING IN DIAMOND CLAIMS

IN 1873 ATTENDED OXFORD UNIVERSITY

SPLIT HIS TIME BETWEEN ENGLAND&SOUTH AFRICA

FORMED THE DE BEERS MINING COMPANY IN 1888

De Beers Mining Company Founded by Cecil Rhodes, funded by

Alfred Beit and the Rothschild family It was formed in 1888 Merged company with Barney Barnato Was able to form this buy buying up

small mining claims A the time was the sole owner of all

diamond mining operators in the country

CECIL & BRITISH IMPERIALISMSUPPORTER OF BRITISH

IMPERIALISMDEVELOPED PHILOSOPHIES ON

BRITISH IMPERIALISM WANTED THE BRITISH TO RULE

MOST PARTS OF THE WORLD THE HOLY LAND IN THE MIDDLE

EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA 1877, REVEALED HIS

THOUGHTS&PHILOSOPHIES

CECIL RHODES AND POLITICS

ELECTED CAPE PARLIAMENT IN 1880FOCUSED ATTENTION ON GERMAN

EXPANSION SO THE BRITISH COULD GET CONTROL OF BECHUANALAND IN 1885

IN 1888 HE SECURED MINING GRANTS FROM THE KING OF NDEBELE

HE GOT A CLAIM TO THE COUNTRY OF RHODESIA

CECIL GOT A CHARTER FROM ENGLAND TO FORM THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY

South Africa in the Late 1800’s

WHAT WAS THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY? MADE TO EXTEND CAPITALISM AND THE

BRITISH EMPIRE WITHOUT IT COMING DOWN ON THE BRITISH TAXPAYER

THE COMPANY DID TRADING WITH SOUTH AFRICA

IT WAS EMPOWERED TO FORM BANKS MANAGE, OWN, AND GRANT/DISTRIBUTE

LAND DEVELOPED THE TERRITORY IT HELD AND

REPSECTED AFRICAN RIGHTS AND ALLOWED FREE TRADE WITHIN ITS TERRITORIES

Rhodesia

RHODESIA RHODESIA IS CURRENTLY KNOWN AS

ZIMBABWE DECLARED ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM

ENGLAND ON NOVEMBER 11TH, 1965 IT WAS NAMED AFTER CECIL RHODES WAS GOVERENED PREDOMINATLY BY A

WHITE MINORITY GOVERNEMNT WAS AT THE FORMER

COLONIAL CAPITAL OF SALISBURY

CECIL’S EMPIRE ALREADY BECOME PART OF PARLIAMENT,

STARTED A MINING COMPANY, GOT A CHARTER TO START THE BSAC, AND BECOME VERY RICH

CONTROLLED THE BRITISH CAPE COLONY IN THE 1890S

BECAME PREMIER OF THE CAPE THANKS TO WHITE, NONWHITE, AND AFRIKANER VOTERS

GAINED THE VOTES BY DISTRIBUTING $25,000 BONDS TO HIS SUPPORTERS

WANTED TO UNITE SOUTH AFRICA UNDER THE BRITISH FLAG

LATER CAREER IN POOR HEALTH, TRIED TO TAKE OVER THE

BOER GOVERNMENT OF THE TRANSVAAL AMUNITION WAS SMUGGLED IN AND A STRIP OF

LAND WAS AWARDED TO THE BRITISH COLONIAL SECRETARY

THE ADMINISTARTOR OF RHODESIA, LEANDER JAMESON, STAYED WITH TROOPS

HE WAS CAPTURED AND RHODES HAD TO RESIGN

CECIL PUT ALL HIS TIME TO FOCUSING ON THE RAILWAY HE HOPED WOULD ONE DAY REACH CAIRO, EGYPT

LAST YEARS AFTER THE ANGLO-BOER WAR BROKE OUT, HE

WENT BACK TO KIMBERELY, SOUTH AFRICA HE WAS FOUND BY THE BOERS A FEW DAYS

LATER IT ENDED FEBRUARY 16TH, 1900 WHILE CECIL

HAD BEEN WORKING ON GATHERING A DEFENSE

CECIL TRAVELED TO ENGLAND AND BACK WHICH WORSENED HIS ALREADY BAD HEALTH

DIED MARCH 26TH, 1902 IN MUIZENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.

PHILANTHROPY “PURE PHILANTHROPY IS VERY WELL IN ITS

WAY BUT PHILANTHROPY PLUS 5 PERCENT IS A GOOD DEAL BETTER” –CECIL RHODES

CECIL LEFT BEHIND SIX MILLION POUNDS MONEY WENT TO OXFORD UNIVERSITY ESTABLISHED THE RHODES SCHOLORSHIPS SOME LAND WAS LEFT IN RHODESIA TO SET

UP THE RHODES UNIVERSITY THERE