De Beers has said that Cecil Rhodes does not represent what the company stands for. Read more. World Could Lose $16 Trillion in Wealth Due to Coronavirus, Report Finds; ...

Cecil Rhodes Wikimedia Rhodes, sensing he had ventured into an untapped ... By the time Rhodes died in 1902, De Beers controlled 90% of the world's rough-diamond production and distribution, ...

First founded by Cecil Rhodes, De Beers' sale to Anglo American puts the diamond miner back in British hands. Tom Bawden. Saturday 05 November 2011 01:00 GMT. Comments.

Cecil Rhodes News from United Press International. A country with a heavy natural resource base, a basic illiteracy rate of 15 percent, higher than the Latin American average, a GINI (inequality ...

De Beers on Wednesday said it expects to sell two-thirds fewer diamonds in the final sales cycles of 2023 than in the same ... which was founded by British mining magnate Cecil Rhodes in 1888, ...

From a hole in the ground on a farm called De Beers in the South African hinterland in the late 19th century, Cecil Rhodes, the infamous colonial capitalist, founded a diamond empire that would ...

For that, we have the De Beers Group of Companies. ... (Diamonds); Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo (CECIL RHODES (seated centre) and Directors of De Beers in 1895); ...

Cecil Rhodes's statue on the steps of the University of Cape Town has now been boarded up. ... He founded the De Beers diamond firm which until recently controlled the global trade.

A small stone statue has sparked an angry protest at Oxford University. The statue, set in the façade of Oriel college, is of Cecil Rhodes, the 19 th century mining tycoon who built the De Beers ...

Cecil Rhodes, pictured, who died in 1902, was the founder of the De Beers diamond company and has been accused of exploiting black miners of the precious rocks.

De Beers' story begins in the late 19th century with Cecil Rhodes, who capitalised on the diamond rush in South Africa by consolidating smaller mining operations into a giant conglomerate.