' So early Thursday his backer came for him and they got in the car and started for a location which had no equal in th usband's judgment; they both displayed a keen interest in her South African colonies-Cape and Natal-a ' 'Pointing to whatT she asked, whereupon he honored her with a graduate seminar on diamonds. It would have been difficult for her to refuse the numerous invitations she received from white students, for she was a spectacular young woman and one of the liveliest on campus.
Like all diamond buyers, he did his calculations in dollars, since America was the ultimate market but since he had to pay in rand, he knew immediately what the exchange would be. In 1926, as a youth of eighteen, he searched for alluvial diamonds on the Lichtenburg diggings, following a tributary of the Vaal, ' Coetzee must have suspected Jonathan's concern, for one day as they crept out of the tunnel he volunteered: 'You could do my work, Nxumalo, but the law is rigid. ie officals said regarding fraternization with girls of mixed breed; the Hottentot herdsman who had prote
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