Diamonds @ Kolmannskuppe
Ten kilometres inland from the port town of Lüderitz lies Kolmannskuppe, a ghost town in the Namib desert, once a small but very rich mining village, until no diamonds were found here any more. In 1908, in what was then German South-West Africa, the worker Zacharias Lewala found a diamond while clearing the railway tracks from sand. Soon after, German miners began to exploit …