Cecil Rhodes, who had succeeded in monopolizing…
1888 CE to 1899 CE
Cecil Rhodes, who had succeeded in monopolizing the diamond industry, is much less successful on the Rand, where his companies prove to be poorer producers than those of his competitors.
In the 1890s, he seeks to compensate for his lackluster performance by carving out a personal empire in present-day Zimbabwe, original site of the fifteenth-century gold industry of Great Zimbabwe.
There he rules the Ndebele and the Shona people through his British South Africa Company.
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Khoikhoi
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Sotho (Basotho or Basuto) people
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Zulu people
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Xhosa people
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Swazi
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Shona people
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Afrikaners
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Boers
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Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
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Cape Colony, British
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Zululand
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Zulu, Kingdom of the
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Sotho kingdom
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Zimbabwe, Ndebele Kingdom of
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South African Republic (the Transvaal)
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Swaziland, Kingdom of
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Swaziland, Kingdom of
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Natal Colony, British
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Orange Free State, Republic of the (Boer Republic)
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British South Africa Company (SAC)
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Rhodesia, Company rule in
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