Historical

UPDATED: 11/08/2017 Nothing historical has yet been found that happened this very day. Research is ongoing… DID YOU KNOW Extracts from the diary of Rev William Pescod in 1884 who was sent to Kimberley as the Minister of the Bean Street ...

  4 August 1902, Opening of the Vaal River Estate (Sydney) diamond diggings. 4 August 1911, Ferdinand Schuler, Managing Director of the DFA, dies in Hospital. 4 August 1911, Constance Hall opens and has its first dance to music of Herr Rybnikar. ...

UPDATED: 28 July 2017 Nothing yet found on this day in Kimberley’s history. The research is ongoing. DID YOU KNOW Jimmy Prentice was the first amateur golfer to win both the SA Amateur and the SA Open in the same ...

Today, 27th July 2017, marks the 90th birthday anniversary of Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe, the forgotten, ignored and erased ‘Mother of Azania’ who has endured unspeakable suffering, struggle and pain. She will celebrate her 90th birthday, as usual, in private, at ...

21 July 1920, F Walter Jameson (Jacaranda Jim) appointed Kimberley City Engineer. DID YOU KNOW Frank Walter Jameson, popularly known as “Jacaranda Jim” was the person responsible for planting the jacaranda trees in Kimberley, Nairobi, and in Pretoria, the latter ...

UPDATED: 14/07/2017 14 July 1858, Black prisoners massacred by farmers near Boshof. 14 July 1964, SA hockey player Wally Ubsdell dies. DID YOU KNOW LIFE AT THE DIGGINGS No.4 Trade, Stores and Stocks Having gone the round of all the ...

7 July 1977, Phakamile Mabija (pictured) dies after plunging from the 6th floor of the Tvl Rd police station. DID YOU KNOW Phakamile Mabija, aged 27 years, was an African anti-Apartheid activist, and member of the Anglican Nomads Educational Group, ...

30 June 1875, Black Flag Rebellion peters out with the arrival of British troops. 30 June 1882, Kimberley’s police force 86 whites and 2 africans. 30 June 1895, Sister Henrietta and the Anglican sisters leave the hospital. 30 June 1912, ...

UPDATED: 23/06/2017 23 June 1891, South African Teachers Association meets in Kimberley. DID YOU KNOW The Catholic missionaries in Kimberley set up temporary churches of canvas, and later of wood and iron and started rudimentary schools for the children. There ...

UPDATED: 11/06/2018 11 June 1888, South Africa’s first War Memorial, the Beaconsfield Town Hall, opened. (pictured). Pictured is the original building shortly after the opening in 1888, as well as a postcard and photograph depicting the Hall in 1902 or ...