Everything I’m about to tell you in this story is true.1 This is
a long story, so it will span more than one blog post. You might
not want to read this story while you are alone or while sitting
in the dark.2  Kimberley South Africa is said to be the most
haunted city in the world, and it certainly is a city with a
remarkable and dark history. The culture of Kimberley is
constructed from the usual colonial framework on which are
draped the tragic lives of representatives from almost every
native culture from thousands of kilometers around.  The city’s
very existence is highly questionable from legal, moral, and
ethical standpoints, yet it is historically central to South
Africa itself, the resulting trope is a rather thick quaint
denialism. The most significant historical event here was a
military siege of the town, but during that siege, it would
appear that black and other non-white labor3 built the
protections that saved all the white women and children and many
of the white men from death from either bomb