Kimberley place
also: Kimberly
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Claims (2)
De Beers operated_in
Kimberley documented
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“Establishing De Beers as the dominant power in the Kimberley diamond fields had little or no political ramifications...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. ELEVEN The Risks and Returns of Empire (1885-1902)
Cecil Rhodes operated_in
Kimberley documented
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“Natty agreed with Rhodes’s criticisms of the way the war was being waged; but he viewed public expression of such criticisms by anyone with large private interests in the mines of Kimberley and the Rand as highly impolitic.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. ELEVEN The Risks and Returns of Empire (1885-1902)
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▶ 36:28
near Kimberley, they found a 78-carat diamond. Now, remember, Rhodes, at the time, was 18 years old. Kimberley was part of a country then that was called Greek-a-land. Greek-a-land was a multicultural, middle-of-nowhere, anti-colonial count…
▶ 37:06
So you get thousands of these miners swarm into Greco Land. Greco Land disappears from the history books. They tried to rebel in 1879. There's an armed rebellion, which led to a complete massacre. And that's Greco Land. But Cecil Rhodes get…