Major Zouga Ballantyne

Thick, dark curly hair, beard bleached to pale gold infused with strands of silver. Dark skin everywhere but the scar on his cheek which is white as porcelain would be. Green eyes have creases from the harsh African sun, and his face is lined marking the hardship of life in this unforgiving country. He speaks with a magnetism that has his wife Aletta believing in him all over again regardless of his many ventures and subsequent misfortunes. He has been in Africa ten years already and is a native of the country and named for the Zouga river near where he was born. His wife Aletta and sons Jordan, aged ten and Ralph aged fourteen are with him as he makes his most recent foray into Africa - this time to the diamond mines of Kimberley. Against Aletta's better judgment, he buys two mines and begins...