Diamonds, Gold and War The Making of South Africa Oyinkan Braithwaite and vibrant original illustrations throughout

and vibrant original illustrations throughout

and reinvention

With the help of old friends and new allies

Nobody did

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Diamonds, Gold and War The Making of South Africa Oyinkan Braithwaite and vibrant original illustrations throughoutSouthern 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