Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — Cecil Rhodes Is III. [ARTICLE]

Cecil Rhodes Is III.

Cecil Rhodes, the man to whom more than any other is due the credit for the rapid commercial development of South Africa, is reported to be seriously ill at Kimberley, and the South African Critic, a periodical published in London, states that his friends are fearful that he may not recover. He is a director in the De Beers mines and is interested in a host of commercial ventures in the cape regions, a fact which has won for him the title of “the uncrowned king of South Africa.*