By Greg Khoury My great grandfather, Maroun, came to South Africa to seek fame and fortune as a diamond miner. Like so many of his generation, he had heard stories of diamonds lying in the veld, waiting to be picked up. With his head filled with big ideas, he and his brother boarded a ship bound for Cape Town to stake a claim in Kimberley. I can only imagine his disappointment, when he got there, having walked from Cape Town, and finding that De Beers had already taken over the mines.
