The completed railway would have spanned over 10,000 ... Imperialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes was instrumental in securing the southern states of Africa for the British Empire and envisioned ...

The inscription just reads: In memory of Cecil Rhodes 1853-1902 Cecil John Rhodes was born on ... granted a royal charter to exploit areas in south and central Africa and a railway was constructed ...

The Victoria Falls Bridge was the brainchild of Cecil Rhodes as part of his grand, and unfulfilled, Cape to Cairo railway scheme. He is recorded to have instructed the engineers to "build the ...