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The History Project: South African Diamond Mines, 1870s

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The Dutch East India Company established a colony at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 and administered it until 1795 when it fell into British hands. The British returned Cape Colony to the Company for a three-year period before finally establishing permanent control in 1806. In the 1830s and 40s, a great majority of the Boers (as a group of the Dutch settlers

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