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randlord

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randlord [ˈrændˌlɔːd]
n
(Historical Terms) South African a mining magnate during the 19th-century gold boom in Johannesburg


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For the next thirty years the story of the Randlords and the great hole of Kimberley could not have been surpassed by fiction.
As a finance writer, I'm more at home in the boardrooms of Sandton or Diagonal Street where screwing of another kind normally takes place as South Africa's powerful randlords do deals at a higher level, and one or another of the parties ends up being shafted.
His father Ernest had paved the way by taking up the reins of the original Randlords who had developed South Africa's gold and diamond industries.
 
 
 
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