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The second time, after Ernest Beckett declined to marry her, she and John married in Cape Town and John adopted her son. They never had children of their own. Josephine Dale Lace was a flamboyant Johannesburg socialite who was often seen in a carriage drawn by a team of zebras. The Dale Laces were
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and would accompany a British Agent with a message to the raiders expressing the Colonial Secretary's disapproval of the raid. When the raid failed, he was one of many of the Committee arrested, tried and found guilty but escaped jail with the payment of a £2,000 fine. After the British victory in
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Dale Lace came to South Africa as an employee of the Bank of Africa. Dale Lace built a fortune in the diamond industry. He would depart Kimberley for the Witwatersrand Goldfields. During 1895 until 1896, he was a member of the
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in the Karoo, who died 14 May 1937. He met and married José for the first time when she was in London pursuing an acting career. It is believed that she was proposed to by
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until it was granted in 1906. He was also a founding member of the Wanderer's Club in Johannesburg., as was a road, Dale Lace Avenue, in Randpark Ridge.
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Just as the gold-mining industry was booming, the diamond market was being monopolised by
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Radio Talk on Heritage Symposium at Richmond, 2014, with focus on life of Jose Dale Lace
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owners of one of Johannesburg's most prominent historic landmarks, the Parktown mansion
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He was twice married to Josephine Cornelia Brink (José) from
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