1. CECIL RHODES AND THE BRITISH PRESENCE IN AFRICA
BY CASSIDY GAZAWAY

2. 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

3. WHO IS THIS MAN? 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?

4. 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

5. “DIAMOND FEVER” 1871: DIAMOND FEVER SPREAD
CECIL AND HERBERT LEFT THE COTTON FARM TO MINE FOR DIAMONDS
WENT TO KIMBERELY, SOUTH AFRICA
CECIL WORKED IN AN OPEN PIT MINE AND SUPERVISED HIS OWN WORKERS
HE SORTED DIAMONDS HIMSELF WITH HIS WORKERS

6. 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

7. 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

8. CECIL & BRITISH IMPERIALISM
SUPPORTER OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM
DEVELOPED 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

9. CECIL RHODES AND POLITICS
ELECTED CAPE PARLIAMENT IN 1880
FOCUSED 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

10. South Africa in the Late 1800’s

11. 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

12. Rhodesia

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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.

17. 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