Hole in the Earth

From a dusty kopje in the Northern Cape to the engine room of a global empire, this documentary history excavates the layered story of the city that diamonds built—and the human cost buried beneath its glittering surface. Tracing Kimberley's arc from ancient Khoisan grazing lands to the frenzied diamond rush of 1871, through the industrial warfare of Rhodes and Barnato, the invention of the closed...