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• Book Title: Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa



• Author: Martin Meredith



• Publication Date: October 1, 2007
• Description:

  Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome section 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. This history of what is today South Africa begins with the result of diamonds on the banks of the Orange River in 1866 and ends with the firm of the Union of South Africa, made up of the previously separate colonies of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal, and the Orange River, in 1910