Tag Archives: Vooruitzicht Farm

31 May 1875, Ebden, Dunell and Company sell Vooruitzicht farm to the Cape Government for £100 000 Sterling. 31 May 1902, End of the Anglo-Boer War. 31 May 1878, The Burness family murdered in the Kuruman region. 31 May 1910, Union of ...

UPDATED: 18/04/2018 18 April 1860, Title deeds to the farm Vooruitzicht granted to the De Beers brothers. 18 April 1900, Fire in Roper Street kills one person. 18 April 1947, British Royal family visit Kimberley. DID YOU KNOW It was ...

UPDATED: 04/04/2018 4 April 1860, Title deeds to the farm Dorstfontein granted to AP du Toit. DID YOU KNOW The farms that make up what is now the general Kimberley region were Dorstfontein, Bultfontein, Vooruitzicht, Alexandersfontein and Benaauwheidsfontein. The title ...

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. DID YOU KNOW Johannes Nicolaas de Beer, (pictured), ...

3 August 1840, Sir James B Robinson, born. 3 August 1870, Transvaal President Pretorius has a claim at Klipdrift. DID YOU KNOW Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, (pictured), 1st Baronet, son of an 1820 settler, was born in Cradock on 3 ...

16 July 1871, Esau Demoense discovers the world’s richest diamond mine, later named the Kimberley Mine. 16 July 1894, Andrew Hudson Bain of Bains Vlei dies in Kimberley. 16 July 1884, Vooruitzucht Estate, except the mining areas, handed over to ...

UPDATED: 28/06/2017 28 June 1902, Presentation of General Service medals to the Kimberley Regiment. 28 June 1903, Frank Mandy, compound manager and former Papal guard, dies. 28 June 1991, Race classification at birth officially de-legislated. DID YOU KNOW Three personalities ...