Zulu 'boys' at De Beers diamond mines. From photograph taken c1885. In 1887 and 1888 Cecil Rhodes amalgamated the diamond mines around Kimberley, which included De Beers, into Consolidated Mines

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Zulu 'boys' at De Beers diamond mines. From photograph taken c1885. In 1887 and 1888 Cecil Rhodes amalgamated the diamond mines around Kimberley, which included De Beers, into Consolidated Mines

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