Colonial rule · Colonial observer
Incwadi Yami; or, Twenty Years' Personal Experience in South Africa
John W. Matthews, 1887
Summary
A vivid personal memoir covering twenty years in South Africa during the transformative diamond-mining era, including the rush to Kimberley, the social world of the diamond fields, and the broader changes sweeping the subcontinent. An accessible eyewitness account of the mineral revolution from a working participant.
Topics
Cape Colony, Natal, Diamonds, Kimberley, Mining, Colonial society
Bibliographic Information
- Author
- John W. Matthews
- Year
- 1887
- Language(s)
- English
- Period
- Colonial rule
- Perspective
- Colonial observer
- Access
- Full view