Parliament cancelled the Kaiser's 15 Rhodes Scholarships in 1916, and Zimbabwean officials called for Rhodes's body to be removed

Cecil Rhodes signed his eighth and final will on 1 July 1899 and added codicils until March 1902. The will created 60 Oxford scholarships and left £100,000 to Oriel College. It left Groote Schuur, with £1,000 a year for upkeep, as a residence for the prime minister of a future federal government. A codicil signed in South Africa added 15 scholarships of £250 for German students, five a year, to be nominated by the German Emperor, because "a good understanding between England Germany and the United States of America will secure the peace of the world." The will also asked for burial on the Matopos hill Rhodes called the "View of the World", under a brass plate reading "Here lie the remains of Cecil John Rhodes." No one else could be buried there unless the government voted that they "deserved well" of the country. Rhodes died at 48. In 1916 his trustees brought the Rhodes Estate Bill. On 19 October 1916 the Commons heard that it would revoke the German codicil and replace the 15 German awards with 12 scholarships of £300. Joseph King moved to reject the bill, then withdrew his motion. No German scholars were elected from 1914 to 1929 or from 1940 to 1969^†. Acts of 1929 and 1946 and a 1976 order changed the trust again, and women were admitted in 1977. Zimbabwean officials called for the grave to be removed in 2010 and 2012^†. A 2012 report said Robert Mugabe blocked the exhumation^†. The grave remains on Malindidzimu^†.