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Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies Boer republics and African chiefdoms a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world But then prospectors chanced upon the world s richest

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Deposits of diamonds and gold setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land The result was the costliest bloodiest and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century an