THE novelist Olive Schreiner who grew to loathe Cecil John Rhodes, once criticized the dubious friends who perpetually surrounded him. Rhodes flew into a rage, exclaiming "Those men my friends? They ...

"This is an account of a fascinating alliance between two seemingly incompatible political partners. On the one side Cecil Rhodes, perhaps the greatest British imperialist of his time - on the other ...

Cecil Rhodes was a prominent imperialist who pushed the British Empire to seize control over vast areas of southern Africa, first as a businessman and later as prime minister of Cape Colony in what is ...

Just when many companies are thinking of pulling out of troubled Africa, one is busily building a business empire as big as any since the heyday of Cecil Rhodes’s British South Africa Company. The new ...