Bulawayo Railway Opened. SKIP ADVERTISEMENT. Skip to content Skip to site index ... Names of Cecil Rhodes and Mr. Chamberlain Cheered with Enthusiasm. Share full article. Nov. 5, 1897.

Cecil Rhodes was born in Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire in 1853. He was the son of a vicar and left for South Africa to work on his brother's cotton farm in 1870.

Cecil Rhodes's statue on the steps of the University of Cape Town has now been boarded up. ... building a railway across the entire continent of Africa without ever leaving British territory.

This project was later taken up by imperialist Cecil Rhodes, who envisioned a continuous railway of British-ruled territories that stretched from the North to the South of the continent. + 8 ...