Statue of Cecil John Rhodes | |
Native Name: | Cecil John Rhodes |
Location: | Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |
Designer: | John Tweed |
Type: | Sculpture |
Material: | Bronze |
Length: | 83mm |
Width: | 83mm |
Begin: | 1904 |
Dedicated To: | Cecil Rhodes |
The Statue of Cecil John Rhodes in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe is a bronze sculpture of a British colonialist, businessman and politician who was the founder of British South Africa Company through which he founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia.[1]
The statue was sculpted by a Scottish sculptor John Tweed[2] and was erected in Bulawayo city[3] centre in 1904. In February 1981 after Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the statue was removed from the city center to the centenary park at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe.[4] [5]