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