African mining magnate Cecil Rhodes funded prestigious ...
Aug 17, 2017· In 1890, at the age of 37, Cecil was elected Prime Minister of the Cape and still had the idea of expanding the Empire throughout the whole continent. So the gold mines located in the territory of the Dutch Republic of the Transvaal (South African Republic) caught his eye, and in 1895, he supported the infamous Jameson Raid attack on the Transvaal.