What is Cecil Rhodes?
[[File:CecilRhodes.jpg|200px|thumb|Rhodes (circa 1900)]] '''Cecil Rhodes''' (5 July 1853 - 26 March 1902) was an [[England|English]]-born South African businessman and [[politician]]. He was the son of an Anglican vicar. He came from an English [[grammar school]] and at the age of 16 was sent to the British [[colony of Natal]] in South Africa due to poor health. There he became involved in diamond mining and founded the world-renowned [[De Beers]] diamond company. He later returned to England briefly to study at [[Oriel College, Oxford]]. He was the starter of [[Rhodesia]]. He started the [[British South Africa Company]]. He led it to expand British territory to the north and form the colony of [[Rhodesia]]. When he was 27, he entered parliament, in 1881. He became Prime Minister of [[Cape Colony]] from 1890 to 1896. He was supported by the [[Afrikaner people|Afrikaner Bond]] in the Cape Colony until he betrayed them by supporting a rebellion against their relatives, the [[Boer|Boers]] of the [[South African Republic]]. He set up the [[Jameson Raid]], led by his close friend Leander Starr Jameson in 1895. The raid was an unauthorised attack on [[Paul Kruger]]'s [[South African Republic]] (or Transvaal). After that the Bond forced him to resign. His heart was weak, and after years of ill health he died in 1902. He was buried in what is now [[Zimbabwe]]; his grave has been a controversial site. He supported the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] and the [[Irish Parliamentary Party]] in domestic politics, in the UK. He started the [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes scholarship]]<nowiki/>s in his [[will]]. They let citizens of British [[Colony|colonies]], the [[United States]] and [[Germany]] to study at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] on a scholarship if they demonstrated certain academic and character qualities. He was a [[Freemason]]. The scholarship has benefited prime ministers of Malta, Australia and Canada, United States President [[Bill Clinton]], and many others.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Koutonin|first=Maw