Cecil Rhodes was born in 1853. He had always been a sickly child and he had become diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of sixteen. "The fact that he was diagnosed with TB and had recently left school changed his life forever". His parents thought a change of location would be good for him and sent him to South Africa in 1870, where his brother had recently gone to live and become a successful cotton farmer. Rhodes …showed first 75 words of 592 total…

…showed last 75 words of 592 total…South Africa stretch from the Cape Colony to the Congo Free State. On top of that achievement, "Rhodes had developed, in effect, a private empire in Southern and Northern Rhodesia", our first source said. Soon after the Boer war erupted in 1899 because of tensions between the British wanting to unite South Africa under British rule and the allied Boer settlers, Cecil Rhodes died in 1902 in Cape Town after leading a life full of amazing accomplishments.