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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alfred Beit (15 February 1853 - 16 July 1906) was a German, British South African, Jewish gold and diamond magnate, a supporter of British imperialism in Southern Africa and a major donor towards infrastructure development in central and Southern Africa, and to university education and research in several countries. Born and brought up in Hamburg, Germany, he was the eldest son and second of six children of an affluent Hamburg trader. He was an unpromising scholar and was apprenticed to Jules Porg?'s & Cie, the Amsterdam diamond firm where he developed a talent for examining stones. Beit made his first fortune in property speculation. Responding to a demand for business premises, he bought a piece of land and built twelve corrugated iron sheds for offices and rented eleven out monthly and kept one for himself. Twelve years later he sold the land for a considerable profit.

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