He was a diamond in the rough when he arrived in South Africa in 1870; he later dominated the diamond industry
In particular, he sought to engineer the conquest of the 
Transvaal, and... [DOC] [TLE] Cecil Rhodes - Wikipedia [PAR] Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853  26 March 1902) was a British 
businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa, who served as 
Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.