Diamonds, Gold and War The Making of South Africa Oyinkan Braithwaite becomes the monster's most powerful

becomes the monster's most powerful slave

Stuart Gilden

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and reinvention

Author/Artist:Newell

Diamonds, Gold and War The Making of South Africa Oyinkan Braithwaite becomes the monster's most powerfulSouthern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced first upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds, and then upon its richest deposits of gold. What followed was a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land, culminating in the costliest, bloodiest, and most