Historical

UPDATED: 08/09/2021 8 September 1882, Second wing of the Queen’s Hotel opens. 8 September 1892, South African International Exhibition opens in Kimberley. 8 September 1897, St Patrick’s Christian Brothers’ College (pictured) founded. 8 September 1910, African miners go on strike at Wesselton ...

7 September 1872, Governor Sir Henry Barkly arrives on the diamond fields for a visit. 7 September 1892, Miss Viola (pictured) goes up 3000 feet in a balloon, and parachutes down. Miss Viola impresses the Kimberley crowd Edith Maud Cook ...

UPDATED: 06/09/2021 6 September 1928, Springbok rugby player Ed Cotty dies at the Pulsator Works. 6 September 1937, Griqua rugby player and administrator JR de Melker dies. 6 September 1980, Kimberley Regiment Band involved in bus accident. Pictured is Piper ...

UPDATED: 03/09/2021 3 September 1976, Black pupils march on the Transvaal Road police station. 3 September 1997, South Africa’s first Ghost Trail launched officially. Pupils from three schools march on police station The 1970s was a time of turmoil both ...

UPDATED: 02/09/2021 2 September 1882, The southern hemisphere’s first street lights switched on in Kimberley. First electric street lights in the southern hemisphere Electric streetlights made their appearance in 1882, with 16 electric streetlights, four of them outside the City ...

UPDATED: 31/08/2021 31 August 1918, CBC Building Fund have produce sale at the City Hall. 31 August 1945, 1000 people attend opening of the Red Cross fete held at the Kbly Regiment. The Kenilworth Orchards “The shade and fruit trees ...

UPDATE: 30/08/2021 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 ...

27 August 1914, Kimberley Defence Rifle Association formed. 27 August 1916, SA rugby player and cricketer Tony Harris born. Tony Harris – Kimberley’s rugby and cricket Springbok Terence Anthony Harris, known to all and sundry as Tony, was born in ...

26 August 1891, British Isles defeats Cape Colony XV 4-0 at the Eclectic ground. 26 August 1897, Kgosi Galeshewe captured by colonial forces. 26 August 1899, Despite being held 0-0 by Rhodesia in their final game, Griquas win the rugby Currie ...

UPDATED: 25/08/2021 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 ...