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What caused Cecil Rhodes to resign his office of prime minister of Cape Colony?

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His personal and business sympathies with the Uitlanders [Afrik.,=foreigners] in the Transvaal, who were mostly British and the victims of discrimination, brought him to conspire for the overthrow of the government of Paul Kruger . The result was the Jameson Raid (1895; see Jameson, Sir Leander Starr ). Although Rhodes did not approve the timing of the raid, he was so clearly implicated that he was forced to resign as prime minister in 1896.

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