1. Flint John, Cecil Rhodes (New York: Little Brown and Co, 1974), pp. 248–252. According to Flint, Rhodes’ ideas on good governance ‘in many ways anticipated fascism … he would have been at home in a one-party corporate state. He disliked the concept of an opposition’ (p. 160).
2. Turrell Robert Vient, Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields 1871-1890 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), p. 121.
3. He hoped his name would live on for 4,000 years. See Maylam Paul, The Cult of Rhodes (Cape Town: David Philip, 2005), p. 12.
4. Rotberg Robert, The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the pursuit of power (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 256− 295.
5. Gladstone was, of course, the greatest of nineteenth-century British hypocrites. In 1879−1880, he had campaigned against Tory imperial adventures but once in office he proceeded to invade and occupy Egypt. See Newsinger John, The Blood Never Dried: a people’s history of the British Empire (London: Bookmarks, 2006), pp. 92−104.