De Beers diamond mining company was founded in South Africa in 1888 by Cecil Rhodes with finance from the Rothschilds, land from the natives, and dynamite from Mr Nobel.  Described by a biographer as “the first of the new dynasty of money kings” and among “the real rulers of the modern world.”, Rhodes was proud of his English heritage as is perhaps plain from some of his writings: “I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.  I contend that every…

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