He was a diamond in the rough when he arrived in South Africa in 1870; he later dominated the diamond industry
He entered the 
diamond trade at Kimberley in 1871, when he was 18, and... [DOC] [TLE] History of South Africa, Industrialization and Imperialism, 1870-1910 [PAR] The diamond industry became the key to the economic fortunes of the Cape 
Colony ... at Mapungubwe (in South Africa, on the border with Zimbabwe) and 
later at the ... companies that were to dominate the industry well into the twentieth 
century.