Historical

31 May 1875, Ebden, Dunell and Company sell Vooruitzicht farm to the Cape Government for £100 000 Sterling. 31 May 1878, The Burness family murdered in the Kuruman region. 31 May 1902, End of the Anglo-Boer War. 31 May 1910, Union of ...

30 May 1985, De Beers Head Office building declared a National Monument. 30 May 1986, Kimberley Africana Library opens. DID YOU KNOW The decision to retain the old Dutoitspan Road building, one of the oldest public buildings in Kimberley, as ...

UPDATED: 29/05/2019 29 MAY 1901, 128 carat diamond found at Klipdam. DID YOU KNOW What on earth do Jack the Ripper of the London Whitechapel murders and infamous poison murderess Daisy de Melker (pictured) have to do with Kimberley? Read ...

28 MAY 1895, The De Beers billiard rooms open on Warren Street. 28 MAY 1924, A bomb explodes during an aerial show at Kuruman, killing four. 28 MAY 1948, The NP win the elections. DID YOU KNOW De Beers Consolidated ...

27 MAY 1886, Artist Harry Stratford Caldecott (pictured) born in Kimberley. DID YOU KNOW The artist Harry Stratford (Strat) Caldecott Junior was born in Kimberley on 27 May 1886, and died in Wynberg, Cape Town on 12 December 1929. “Strat” ...

UPDATED: 24/05/2019 24 May 1870, Jan Christian Smuts born on the farm Bovenplaats, two km north of Riebeek West. His first political speech was in Kimberley on 29 October 1895. 24 May 1932, Sol Plaatje’s last public speech in Kimberley. ...

UPDATED: 23/05/2019 23 May 1886, Foundation stone of All Saints Church in Beaconsfield laid. 23 May 1900, Presentation to Town Council by Dr R Harris of Cecil Rhodes’ portrait. 23 May 2013, Sylvia Lucas inducted as Premier of the Northern ...

UPDATED:  22/05/2019 22 May 1878, Some 100 Griqua casualties in the battle of Driefontein at Griquatown. 22 May 1880, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, founder of Anglo American Corporation, is born in Germany. 22 May 1937, Marjorie Timlin, wife of William, killed ...

21 May 1878, Griquatown relieved by a Kimberley column. 21 May 1891, YMCA in Newton opens. 21 May 1912, Sir Julius Wernher, pictured, the last Life Governor of De Beers, dies. DID YOU KNOW Sir Julius Charles Wernher, 1st Baronet ...

UPDATED: 20/05/2019 20 May 1883, Robert Milne murdered in Beaconsfield. 20 May 1889, Beaconsfield Public Library and Institution officially opened. 20 May 1895, De Beers Mine Recreation Room, formerly the Boardroom, opens. 20 May 1947, Retired Head librarian John Gow Ross ...