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Know about a ghost town in Africa abandoned since 50 years

New Delhi: Kolmanskop in Namibia was founded in 1908 when a railway worker, Zacharias Lewala discovered a diamond in this place and showed it to his supervisor, who then got the gem tested and approved.After

 



These migrants became wealthy due to diamond mining and built the town in the German architectural style.

With such wealth, they began to build hospital, ballroom, power station, school, skittle-alley, theatre and sport-hall, casino, ice factory and the first x-ray-station in the southern hemisphere, as well as the first tram in Africa.

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