Housing Big Hole

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the kimberley mines: miners


native locations created miners mining managers. these locations improved security , limited theft of diamonds.they had no natural water sources or proper waste disposal. origins , features of apartheid city structure can traced particular class, social , economic circumstances of rapid industrialisation in kimberley.








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