Today in Kimberley's History
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107 days since beginning of the Siege of Kimberley, 1900
Extract from "The Diary of a Doctor's Wife – During the Siege of Kimberley October 1899 to February 1900" by Winifred Heberden.
Jack has discovered that most of the men at the Camp keep water bags of canvas in their tents, some of these bags being years old. As typhoid has again appeared in the Camp, and it might be traced to this, he has requested the C.O. to order the destruction of all private bags, and to have large canvas coolers in frames, capable of being cleaned, erected for the men in one part of the Camp.
Extract from "The Diary of a Doctor's Wife – During the Siege of Kimberley October 1899 to February 1900" by Winifred Heberden.
Jack has discovered that most of the men at the Camp keep water bags of canvas in their tents, some of these bags being years old. As typhoid has again appeared in the Camp, and it might be traced to this, he has requested the C.O. to order the destruction of all private bags, and to have large canvas coolers in frames, capable of being cleaned, erected for the men in one part of the Camp.
Solly Sachs leaves South Africa - 1953
Socialist and labour activist Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs left South Africa to settle in England on this date. He stated that his position in South Africa had become untenable. This move followed after two notices in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (1950) had been served on him on 19 May 1952 and his arrest on two occasions during the same month. He was sentenced to six months' forced labour, suspended for two years, on both charges. Sachs continued his opposition to the South African government in England.
Socialist and labour activist Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs left South Africa to settle in England on this date. He stated that his position in South Africa had become untenable. This move followed after two notices in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (1950) had been served on him on 19 May 1952 and his arrest on two occasions during the same month. He was sentenced to six months' forced labour, suspended for two years, on both charges. Sachs continued his opposition to the South African government in England.