WHO LIVES HERE?
Willoughby Vergottini and Johann de Beer, Klein the tabby cat, Trixie the Siamese Cross, Rocky the Boxer and Kibbie the Jack Russell Terrier
WHERE Kimberley, Northern Cape
SIZE house 467m2, erf 2 372m2
It’s 29 October, 1938. In Europe, the clouds of war are gathering. In Kimberley, the city’s 49-year-old parliamentary representative William Benbow Humphreys and his wife Maude are throwing a lavish party for their friend and political ally General Jan Smuts at their imposing home.
At the front door in Carrington Street, then still a dusty dirt road, guests are
