A proponent of this idea began to focus on its implementation after buying out the holdings of Barney Barnato.
The term for this idea was coined by the poet Edwin Arnold, and it was first promoted in an anonymous article by Harry Hamilton Johnston. This idea is symbolized by the location of a memorial that features eight lion sculptures and a bronze statue called Physical Energy. A proponent of this idea began to focus on its implementation after buying out the holdings of Barney Barnato. Land needed for this project was explored by the Pioneer Column after it was acquired in the Rudd Concession, which was obtained from King (*) Lobengula. This project would have disrupted the Portuguese "Pink Map" with a "red line," and it was satirized in a Punch cartoon showing its promoter as a "Colossus" holding a telegraph wire and standing on a continent. For 10 points, name this unrealized project of Cecil Rhodes to create a transportation route from South Africa to Egypt.
The term for this idea was coined by the poet Edwin Arnold, and it was first promoted in an anonymous article by Harry Hamilton Johnston.
Cape to Cairo Railway [or Cape to Cairo Red Line; or anything indicating a chain of British colonies from Cape Town to Cairo]