By Matthew S. Seligmann
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These firms, holding state concessions that gave them the exclusive right to provide, sell and market a particular product or service, quickly became a factor of some importance in the operation of the Republic's economy. The effect of their presence on mining costs, while variable in its impact, was almost always adverse. Particularly onerous in this regard were the dynamite and railway monopolies. Of all the materials required for deep-level mining, explosives were amongst the most important and hence their purchase accounted for a substantial proportion of the overall operating cost of most mines.
Large sections of the press, for instance, were openly hostile to the Boer trekkers, whom they perceived as little more than interlopers. Commenting on their presence, the Vossische Zeitung noted that 'if Southwest Africa is suitable for settlement. we would much rather see real Germans there than South African Boers who leave the land when they have exhausted it. ' 7 For those members of the public who had been appreciative of the media's former, more ambitious and ideologically orientated stance, such journalistic conservatism came as something of an anticlimax.
As the officials of the Auswartiges Amt never tired of reminding their British counterparts, by the mid-1890s there were many thousands of Germans settled in southern Africa, a large number of whom had risen to positions of great importance in the region's commercial life. The extent of the latter group's success should not be underestimated. Looking back in the 1930s, the mining magnate Sir David Harris compiled a necrology of the 'Randlords' he had known. Of the fifteen people on the list, eight of them were of German origin.