How SA's giant rose from Kimberley dust

26 March 2017 - 02:00

By Duncan Innes

In 1902 a young man of German origin, Ernest Oppenheimer, arrived in Kimberley to run the local office of his family's diamond-trading company, Dunkelsbuhler & Co. The establishment of De Beers Consolidated Mines in 1888 had brought the diamond producers in Kimberley under centralised control in which Dunkelsbuhler was involved on the trading side.

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