The First Matabele War was fought between 1893 and 1894 in the country today called Zimbabwe.
 It pitted the British South Africa Company against the Ndebele (Matabele) Kingdom.
 Lobengula, king of the Ndebele, had tried to avoid outright war with the company's pioneers because he and his advisors were mindful of the destructive power of European-produced weapons on traditional Matabele impis (units of Zulu warriors) attacking in massed ranks.
 Lobengula had 80,000 spearmen and 20,000 riflemen, armed with nine-pound Martini-Henrys, which were modern arms at that time.
 However, poor training meant that these were not used effectively.
 The British South Africa Company had no more than 750 troops in the British South Africa Company's Police, with an undetermined number of possible colonial volunteers and an additional 700 Tswana (Bechuana) allies.
 Cecil Rhodes, who was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony and Leander Starr Jameson, the Administrator of Mashonaland also tried to avoid war to prevent loss of confidence in the future of the territory.
 Matters came to a head when Lobengula approved a raid to forcibly extract tribute from a Mashona chief in the district of the town of Fort Victoria, which inevitably led to a clash with the Company.
Patrick William Forbes (1861 – 1918), was a leader of the paramilitary British South Africa Police, who commanded a force that invaded Matabeland in the First Matabele War.
Major-General Sir Edward Yewd Brabant, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1839), was a South African colonial military commander.
 He served in the 9th Xhosa War (1877–1878), First Matabele War (1893–1894), and other campaigns.
 During the Second Boer War (1899–1902), he commanded the Colonial Division in 1900, and the Colonial Defence Force of Cape Colony in 1901.
The Shangani Patrol was a patrol of the British South Africa Company that was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors during the First Matabele War in 1893.
The Battle of Bembezi, that took place on November 1, 1893, was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.
Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa, who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
 An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which the company named after him in 1895.
 South Africa's Rhodes University is also named after him.
 Rhodes set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate, and put much effort towards his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory.
The British South Africa Company Medal (1890–97).
 In 1896, Queen Victoria sanctioned the issue by the British South Africa Company of a medal to troops who had been engaged in the First Matabele War.
 In 1897, the award was extended to those engaged in the two campaigns of the Second Matabele War, namely Rhodesia (1896) and Mashonaland (1897).
 The three medals are the same except for name of the campaign for which the medal was issued, inscribed on the reverse.
Major Wilson's Last Stand is an 1899 British silent short war film based upon the historical accounts of the Shangani Patrol.
 The film was adapted from "Savage South Africa", a stage show depicting scenes from both the First Matabele War and the Second Matabele War which opened at the Empress Theatre, Earls Courte, on 8 May 1899.
 It was taken on the field by Joseph Rosenthal for the Warwick Trading Co., Ltd.
 Copies of this short film originally sold for £3.
The Shangani Patrol (or Wilson's Patrol), comprising 34 soldiers in the service of the British South Africa Company, was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors during the First Matabele War in 1893.
 Headed by Major Allan Wilson, the patrol was attacked just north of the Shangani River in Matabeleland in Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe).
 Its dramatic last stand, sometimes called "Wilson's Last Stand", achieved a prominent place in the British public imagination and, subsequently, in Rhodesian history, mirroring events such as the Battle of Shiroyama in Japan, the Alamo massacre in Texas and the ancient Greeks' last stand at Thermopylae.
The Battle of the Shangani took place on 25 October 1893, during the First Matabele War in what is now Zimbabwe.
 A British column was attacked at night by a large force of Matabele, but repulsed them with heavy loss of life to the Matabele.
 It is noted for being the first battle in which the Maxim gun played an important role.

Question: The First Matabele War involved the British businessman who was Prime Minister of what area from 1890-96?
Answer: Cape Colony