25 OCTOBER 1882, Trial pumping of water from the Vaal river to Kimberley. 25 OCTOBER 1940, Springbok John (Jack) Braine dies. (Pictured is an engraving published in the Illustrated London News of January 1883 showing the Waterworks on the Vaal ...
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31 May 1875, Ebden, Dunell and Company sell Vooruitzicht farm to the Cape Government for £100 000 Sterling. 31 May 1878, The Burness family murdered in the Kuruman region. 31 May 1902, End of the Anglo-Boer War. 31 May 1910, Union ...
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19 October 1871, The farm Vooruitzicht officially sold by the De Beers brothers to the Ebden Brothers for 6000 guineas. Pictured is the original De Beer’s homestead and Johannes Nicolaas de Beer. Vooruitzicht and the Homestead Johannes Nicolaas de Beer, ...
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19 May 1879, Presbyterian Church foundation stone laid by Sir Walter Frere, New Main Road. 19 May 1881, First sod turned for the new Newton reservoir by Moses Cornwall. (Pictured is the reservoir wall in 1899 being used by the ...
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On January 3rd 1883 the diamond field (Kimberley) mining companies were supplied with water extracted from the Vaal River for the first time. 3 January 1878, Kimberley’s first Town Clerk, JH Boag, appointed. 3 January 1883, Mining companies supplied with water ...
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