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Cape-to-Cairo rail dream struggles to stay awake

By Richard Kerama

Historical accounts try very hard to explain the legend of Cecil John Rhodes and the history of gold and diamond mining in South Africa, but still trip all over each other about the fellow’s first mine.

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