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Richard Southey
Richard Southey was a Cape Colony official who served as colonial secretary and then as lieutenant-governor of Griqualand West from 1873 to 1875, after Britain annexed the diamond fields around Kimberley. He struggled to govern the unruly mining camps and was recalled after the Black Flag Revolt of diggers in 1875.
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