13 July 1940, Salvation Army building in Crossman Road opened by Commissioner Cunningham. 13 July 1949, Springbok rugby player JWE “Klondyke” Raaff dies. 13 July 1990, Retired chief librarian Olive McIntyre dies. 13 July 1993, Artist Nellie Steenkamp dies. DID YOU ...
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UPDATED: 06/07/2018 6 July 1858, The battle of Slypklip where Kausob defeated by a Boer commando. 6 July 1968, Author Sarah Gertrude Millin (pictured) dies. Sarah Gertrude Millin was born in Lithuania on 10 March 1888, in a village consisting of ...
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UPDATED: 29/06/2018 29 June 1882, Two large diamonds, weighing 120 carats and 78 carats, found in the Elma Mining Company claims in the De Beers mine. DID YOU KNOW The Elma Mining Company, one of myriad such in the four ...
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UPDATED: 22/06/2018 22 June 1897, All De Beers employees given the day off to attend Queen Victoria Jubilee celebrations in town. 22 June 1925, Chinese storekeeper Ah Finn dies of bubonic plague in the Malay Camp. 22 June 1932, Solomon ...
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UPDATED: 15/06/2018 15 June 1943, A four man delegation from Kimberley meets with General Smuts. (Pictured are two South African World War II posters circa 1940). DID YOU KNOW Kimberley’s dependence on diamonds once again came to the fore during ...
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8 June 1901, Foundation stone of the DFA building unveiled on Stockdale Street. DID YOU KNOW Kimberley, June 8 – (From our Correspondent.) This afternoon Mr Frederick Luke St Leger, general manager of the Cape Times Limited, and director of ...
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1 June 1889, De Beers Consolidated Mines takes control of the Kimberley Mine. 1 June 1893, Anthony M Robeson appointed De Beers electrical engineer. 1 June 1896, A diamond weighing 503¼ carats found in the De Beers Mine. 1 June 1910, George Green leaves ...
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UPDATED: 25/05/2018 25 May 1875, Police Constable Pieter Sam executed in Kimberley for murdering two prisoners. This is the first execution in Kimberley. 25 May 1893, Air Vice Marshal Sir Christopher Quentin Brand (pictured) born in Beaconsfield. 25 May 1984, ...
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18 May 1876, The Lanyon Theatre opens. 18 May 1881, Meeting called to form the Kimberley Club. 18 May 1906, Statue of Queen Victoria in the Public Gardens unveiled. Pictured is the statue in its current position, Queen Victoria, and ...
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UPDATED: 11/05/2018 11 May 1879, Advocate James Halkett dies aged 36 years. 11 May 1881, Kimberley Central Diamond Mining Company now the largest company in the Kimberley Mine. 11 May 1968, ZK Matthews dies in Washington USA. 11 May 1998, ...
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