UPDATED: 25/08/2023 25 AUGUST 1904, De Beers takes over the town council electricity 25 AUGUST 1954, Gallery founder Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin dies. Photographer extraordinaire Alfred Duggan-Cronin Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin (pictured) was an Irish-born South African photographer who undertook several photographic and collecting ...
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Eskom is contemplating a regulated interruption of electricity supply as opposed to an outright disconnection. Diamond Fields Advertiser Jan 12 2017 ©1999-2017 Independent Online. All rights strictly reserved.
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