UPDATED: 06/03/2024 6 March 1958, An UFO, or meteorite, flashes across Kimberley before exploding into six pieces. DID YOU KNOW The official opening of the Rooipoort Shooting Box (pictured) was on Thursday 10 August 1899 when a group of De ...
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UPDATED: 21/02/2024 21 February 1851, Barney Barnato born in London. 21 February 1885, Foundation stone of the Newton NGK Church laid. 21 February 1894, 25 miners killed in a De Beers mine mudrush. 21 February 1899, England defeat GW XV by an Innings ...
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UPDATED: 29/01/2024 29 January 1961, Fatima Shrine in Galeshewe suburb opens for worship. 29 January 1965, Griqualand West start 3 day cricket match against touring MCC. 29 January 1980, Kuruman man wins R35 000 first prize in the Bonus Bonds ...
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UPDATED: 15/11/2023 15 November 1869, Bultfontein Mine bought by Lilienfeld, Webb and Hond. 15 November 1914, Robert G Kekewich commits suicide in England. 15 November 1916, Death of Charles Dunell Rudd in England. 15 November 1965, Don McHardy Memorial Fountain ...
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UPDATE: 14/11/2023 14 November 1901, The renovated, improved Wesley Church re-opens in West End. WESLEYANS IN EARLY KIMBERLEY Some of the [early] diggers [in Kimberley] were Wesleyans and endeavoured to keep up the forms of religion. The Rev. J. Thorne ...
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UPDATED: 26/10/2023 26 OCTOBER 1888, Nazareth House opens on Dutoitspan Road. 26 OCTOBER 1892, SA rugby player Harry Boyes dies tragically. 26 OCTOBER 1897, Theatre Royal opens in Kimberley on Dutoitspan Road. 26 OCTOBER 1941, The altar of the re-built St ...
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UPDATED: 05/10/2023 5 October 1894, Bevil Gordon D’Urban Rudd MC born. 5 October 1895, Nazareth House Chapel opens for worship. 5 October 1990, Inaugural Barney Barnato Golf Tournament. Nazareth House Chapel opens The construction on the Nazareth House chapel began ...
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UPDATED: 01/09/2023 1 September 1877, Jan Hoogstander murdered by William Danster near Barkly West. 1 September 1892, Savoy Hotel on Boshof Road opens for business. 1 September 1918, DBCM Director and Chairman Francis Oats dies. 1 September 1920, F Walter Jameson ...
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UPDATE: 30/08/2023 30 August 1890, Foundation stone laid for the new Municipal complex in Stockdale Street. The Municipal complex in Stockdale Street Two postcards circa 1907 are depicted showing quite clearly the Kimberley municipal compound (complex) at the time. Both ...
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UPDATED: 25/08/2023 25 AUGUST 1904, De Beers takes over the town council electricity 25 AUGUST 1954, Gallery founder Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin dies. Photographer extraordinaire Alfred Duggan-Cronin Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin (pictured) was an Irish-born South African photographer who undertook several photographic and collecting ...
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