He was a diamond in the rough when he arrived in South Africa in 1870; he later dominated the diamond industry
[DOC] [TLE] South Africa in the 19th Century - West Chester University's [PAR] Unlike most of the rest of Africa, South Africa was very sparsely populated at the 
time when .... Kimberley in 1870, only three years after Europeans started to mine 
diamonds .... the dominant European figure in southern Africa in the late 19th 
century.