An antique photograph of the Kimberley Diamond mines (Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa) towards the end of the 19th century. Mndebele told RT that the illegal miners were ‘easy ...

There wouldn’t have been a unified South Africa. Kimberley initiated the industrial mining revolution that formed South ...

REPORTER AT LARGE about the history of diamond mining in and around Kimberley, South Africa. The first diamond was found by a child in 1866 or 1867, and soon afterwards the rush was on.