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Barend Smartryk Johannes Jacobus Jansen van Rensburg (1898 - 1923)
Barend Van Rensburg (23), a tuber on the railways at Upington (map), was married to Rachel de Kock (22). He married her because she was pregnant and he feared moral scandal might lose him his job. Howe...
Pierre Corneille Faculys Basson (1880 - 1906)
PIERRE BASSON: 1903 Pierre Corneille Faculys Basson was posthumously convicted of murder in 1906. He was described by Inspector Easton, the police officer who went to investigate his death, as 'a scoun...
David Brettland Urbasch (1963 - 2007)
The Pierneef work stolen in 2006 from the SABC building is valued at R4million and has not been recoved. - See more at: burns stolen PierneefDecember 19 2006 at 12:00pmA thief has burnt the R2,5-millio...
George St Leger Gordon Lennox (1) MP (1845 - 1919)
"Scotty Smith"
#1295252 Matrimonial Court Minutes Upington/Gordonia Marriage Affidavits Item 4: 1903-1910Husband: George St. Leger LENNOX, Bachelor, Farmer, residing Lentlands farm, district of Gordonia Wife: Susara ...
Daisy Louisa de Melker MP (1883 - 1932)
Daisy de Melker was a trained nurse who poisoned two husbands with strychnine for their life insurance while living in Germiston in the central Transvaal (now Gauteng), and then poisoned her only...
Thomas Dennison (1874 - 1962)
"Tommy", "The Highwayman"
In 1912 the 2nd Zeederberg Coach robbery took place on Pilgrims Hill. The Highwayman was Tommy Dennison. Dennison had come out to South Africa as a private during the Anglo Boer War. He was a bugler an...
