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"...for Rhodes political success means territorial and financial success":*
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"His idea of a trans-African railway Cape to Cairo" "his project of a South African Empire"
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"...his intellectual hold on the hard metal souls of the mining magnates whose wealth he forced into the service of his schemes..."
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A hundred years after founding De Beers, his company still held 90% share in the diamond market.
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