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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/07/southafrica.israel
https://www.britannica.com/place/South-Africa/Diamonds-gold-and-imperialist-intervention-1870-1902
Initially, individual diggers, Black and white, worked small claims by hand. As production rapidly centralized and mechanized, however, ownership and labour patterns were divided more starkly along racial lines. A new class of mining capitalists oversaw the transition from diamond digging to mining industry as joint-stock companies bought out diggers. The industry became a monopoly by 1889 when De Beers Consolidated Mines (controlled by Cecil Rhodes) became the sole producer. Although some white diggers continued to work as overseers or skilled labourers, from the mid-1880s the workforce consisted mainly of Black migrant workers housed in closed compounds by the companies (a method that had previously been used in Brazil).
https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/what-is-the-history-of-the-south-african-jewish-diamond-industry-687629
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