Countercurrent: conversations with Professor Roger Kneebone
John Acland in conversation with Roger Kneebone
30 Sep 2019
When John Acland retired he was managing director of Williamson's Diamond Mine Ltd in Tanzania, having turned it from being a failed mine into a highly profitable organisation. After cutting his teeth as a miner in northern Canada he trained at the Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall before a career that took him from South Africa and Botswana to Angola, Namibia and Tanzania before changing direction and becoming an olive farmer in South Africa's Western Cape.
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