Description This is going to hurt a lot of people's feelings that have, and is still paying thousands of dollars for a shiny rock. The financial sacrifices made by lots of you for bragging rights. The feeling you had when you saw all those sparklers in your engagement/wedding rings. But don't take my words for it do your own research. Cecil Rhodes took that chunk of Afrika and named it after himself (Rhodesia) like it was his daughter or sumptin! Then those Afrikans took it back and restored it's glorious name-Zimbabwe! Habari gani agu ndugu! Bling! Bling!