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From: Marty Russell <>
Subject: KIMBERLEY
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 18:48:34 -0700


In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant's Child passed through
Graham's Town, Kimberley and Khama's Country on his journey to the banks
of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever
trees. Nowadays family history researchers are covering the same ground
and filling all Africa with their 'satiable curtiosities.

>From correspondence on this site it appears that almost every South
African family has a connection with Kimberley. Anyone who would like to
know more about life there will enjoy "EARLY KIMBERLEY : A PHOTOGRAPHIC
SOUVENIR" edited by VIDA ALLEN. There are 150 pages filled with photos
of the camps, mines, houses (great and small), shops, churches, schools,
sports clubs, Siege etc etc. The bulk of the book concentrates on the
period up to the end of the Anglo-Boer War, but the last section on
Aviation carries on a little further.

Contact the Kimberley Africana Library, PO Box 627, Kimberley, 8300.
Tel 0531-806247 for more info. Local price, including post and packing
is under R50.

Bad news for overseas researchers is that the book weighs nearly half a
kilo, but considering the current value of the rand it would probably
still cost only peanuts in any normal currency.

Eileen Russell

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