UPDATED: 22/01/2020 22 January 1844, Reverend Prince Gway Tyamzashe (pictured) born. 22 January 1901, Queen Victoria dies in England. The Reverend Prince Gway (Gwayi) Tyamzashe 22 January 1844 – 26 October 1896 No 1 Location in Kimberley, (roughly) bordering on ...
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UPDATED: 21/01/2020 21 January 1872, Church school opens its doors in Dutoitspan. 21 January 1900, Long Cecil gun fires its first shell in anger at the Boers. 21 January 1931, Sydney de Melker, a Kimberley Springbok rugby player, marries the notorious ...
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UPDATED: 20/01/2020 20 January 1900, Proving, sighting and slight adjustments to the Long Cecil gun (pictured) are made. DEATH FROM DISEASE RUNS RAMPANT DURING THE SIEGE Rationing of foodstuffs was not seriously adhered to until the military authorities realized that ...
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UPDATED: 17/01/2020 17 January 1885, First mining compound opened at the Kimberley Mine by the French Company. 17 January 2020, First game of the ICC Under 19 World Cup cricket played in Kimberley. (Pictured is the Bultfontein Mine compound in ...
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UPDATED: 16/01/2020 16 January 1889, Kimberley awarded the cricket Currie Cup by England. 16 January 1891, Fabricius has five men working the new Wesselton mine. 16 January 1900, Soup kitchen opened at the Hull St Convict Station. Pictured is the Wesselton Mine ...
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UPDATED: 15/01/2020 15 January 1877, Murderer William Danster executed in Kimberley. 15 January 1897, Secretary of De Beers CM, William Henry Craven dies in the USA. 15 January 1901, Catholic Bishop Anthony Gaughren OMI dies. 15 January 1942, Springbok rugby player AFW ...
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UPDATED: 14/01/2020 14 January 1871, First official mail from Cape Town to Klipdrift dispatched. THE POST BETWEEN THE DIGGINGS AND CAPE TOWN It was on 15 October 1870 that the first mail was dispatched from the Diamond Fields to Cape ...
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UPDATED: 13 JANUARY 2020 13 January 1900, The price of meat raised – beef 1/- and horse flesh 9 pennies per pound. Excerpt from “THE DIARY OF A DOCTOR’S WIFE” During the Siege of Kimberley October 1899 to February 1900 ...
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UPDATED: 10 January 2020 10 January 1884, Dynamite explosion kills two miners at the De Beers Mine. 10 January 1887, Irvine Grimmer takes 16 wickets for 83 runs for Strayklips vs WP CC. OUTSTANDING SPORTSMAN – IRVINE GRIMMER Irvine Grimmer (pictured) ...
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09 JANUARY 1873, Lt-Governor Richard Southey (pictured) takes up his appointment for Griqualand West. 09 JANUARY 1914, Unknown Chinese storekeeper murdered in his shop on Maude Street. A PLACE OF TRAGEDY IN KIMBERLEY It has often been said that certain ...
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