Cecil+John+Rhodes


 * __Cecil Rhodes__**: Was born July 5th 1853, and died March 26, 1902. He was a English born buisnessman, mining magnate, and a politician in South Africa. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today makes 40% of the worlds rough diamonds. He was a believer of colonialism and imperialism, and was the founder of the state Rhodesia now called Zimbabwe and Zambia. Cecil Rhodes was the sixth prime minister of the Cape Colony and was in office from 1890 - 1896 under the Queen Victoria monarch.