Nyorai kuenderera mberi kwechikamu chino - Kunyange zvazvo chikumbiro chokuvamba yunivhesiti muMakhanda chakanga chaitwa kare kare muna 1902, zvinetso zvemari zvakakonzerwa neHondo dzeFrontier
muEastern Cape kwakatadzisa kuti chikumbiro ichi chiitwe. Muna 1904 Leander Starr Jameson akabudisa £50 000 masheya akasarudzwa kuyunivhesiti kubva kuRhodes Trust. Nemari iyi Rhodes University College yakavambwa nechibvumirano cheparamende musi wa 31 May 1904.