Diamonds, Gold & War
The Second Anglo-Boer War1899 - 1902
Presented at OLLI at Duke - Fall 2009Presented at OLLI at Duke - Fall 2009
Die hele lewe leef in ons: om onself te ken – en om selfs intelligent nederig to wees - moet ons al die gestaltes ken wat in ons aanwesig is.
N.P van Wyk Loew Afrikaans writer and poet
Life in it’s entirety lives in us: to know oneself – and to be intelligently humble – we must understand all the characteristics which are present in us.
Quoted in ‘The Afrikaners’ by Herbert Giliomee
This is a tale of two peoples bent on confrontation.
It is a tale of avarice and greed, of vengeance and hatred.
Also courage and bravery
There is much human suffering and untold despair
It tells of an age of collisions,
Where pomp and ceremony clash with common people and farmers
Where modern weapons demonstrate for the first time how horrific war will become
It is set in a time when some humans were
considered species to be derided, while others
lived in comfort and splendor.
It is truly a tale of simple people who had the misfortune
of finding themselves living in a land of great riches that
attracted many powerful and avaricious people from all
over the world who coveted the wealth.
It is indeed a sad tale.
Empire
Darkest Africa
‘All I can add in my solitude, is, may heaven’s richblessing come down on every one, American,
English or Turk, who will help to heal this opensore of the world’
David Livingstone’s last words inlaid in brass on hisTomb in Westminster Abbey
He died in 1876
by 1885
The African ExperienceFrom “Lucy” to Mandela
Lecture 17 - South Africa – The Frontier & Unification
Excerpt from lectures presented by Professor Kenneth P. Vickery, NCSU
The Teaching Company