![]() ![]() ![]() Their relationship was well known to their peers in South Africa. Rhodes’ longtime live-in lover was Neville Pickering, the first secretary of the De Beers Diamond Corporation. ![]() An indication of Rhodes’ predilections can be found in the guidelines for scholarship selection: candidates must display a “fondness for success in manly outdoor sports, such as football and cricket.” His business empire became the nation of Rhodesia.Īlthough the country has been called Zimbabwe since the end of white rule in 1980, Rhodes’ name lives on in a far more charitable context as the benefactor of the Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford. Of those four, only one is thought to have been gay: Cecil Rhodes, who made his fortune exploiting the labor of black South Africans in his Kimberley diamond mines. Elisa_rolle Not many people have had an entire country named after them-only Columbus, Bolivar, Vespucci, and Rhodes come to mind. ![]()
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