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Borrowed money from N.M. Rothschild & Sons
Bought out all smaller diamond mining operations in area
Amassed enormous person fortune -
Cape's vineyards wiped out in epidemic
Began modern day Cape fruit industry -
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Began company
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Gained monopoly over world's diamond supply
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Tried to avoid interference from bureaucrats in Colonial Office in London
Forced indigenous people from lands to make way for industrial development