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The company, The Gold Fields of South Africa, Limited, was registered in London on 9 February 1887. But no one knows who gave it this impressive name. It sounds more like Rhodes’s invention than Rudd’s for Rhodes always devoted deep thought to the names of his ventures. He liked to find words that suggested not merely sound business but also a wide and high purpose. And this was such a name.
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Cartwright, P.A. (1967). The Company. In: Gold Paved the Way. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81679-8_3
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