Comparisons to the British colonial tycoon, CecilJohn Rhodes, who established the Rhodes Scholars program in 1902 to bring scholars to Oxford University to study, were quickly and easily made.
FORBES: The New Colossus of Rhodes
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But De Beers , founded by British-born colonial expansionist CecilJohn Rhodes in 1880, never let that happen.
FORBES: Fracture Lines
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CecilJohn Rhodes, a British imperialist who made a fortune in diamond mines and launched the de Beers diamond cartel, was one of those.
CNN: Seeds of Zimbabwe's land conflict were planted more than a century ago