UPDATED: 15/05/2020 15 May 1915, Ernest Oppenheimer rescued from a mob. Ernest Oppenheimer forced to leave Kimberley The resignation of Ernest Oppenheimer as Mayor of Kimberley and as a Town Councillor on 12 May 1915 as a result of the ...
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UPDATED: 14/05/2020 14 May 1878, Griquatown besieged by the Griqua people. 14 May 1902, Royal Munster Fusiliers Promenade concert in aid of Nazareth House. 14 May 1903, Three Black miners killed in a mud rush in the De Beers Mine. ...
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UPDATED: 13/05/2020 13 May 1888, Telegraphist Alfred Cogill dies. 13 May 1915, Anti-German riots after sinking of SS Lusitania. 13 May 1980, The Kimberley Drive-In theatre opens to all races. Mob runs riot in Kimberley, looting and burning The Cunard ...
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UPDATED: 12/05/2020 12 May 1915, Ernest Oppenheimer (pictured) resigns as Mayor of Kimberley. 12 May 1962, Dame Flora Robson appears on stage in Kimberley in “The Corn is Green”. 12 May 1976, Lance Mowbray elected Life Member of the Master ...
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UPDATED: 11/05/2020 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 (pictured) dies in Washington USA. 11 May ...
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UPDATED: 08/05/2020 8 May 1945, Germany surrenders to end the conflict in Europe. The end of World War II in Europe – 75 years ago The formal surrender of the German military forces in World War II, and thus the ...
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UPDATED: 07/05/2020 7 May 1962, The Grand Old Man of the Kimberley regiment, Mossie Rodwell, dies. 7 May 1994, The first Premier of the Northern Cape, Manne Dipico, inducted. DID YOU KNOW Manne Emsley Dipico (pictured) was born in Greenpoint ...
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UPDATED: 06/05/2020 6 May 1887, De Beers Mining Company AGM held at their new offices for first time in Warren Street. 6 May 2009, Hazel Jenkins inducted as Premier of the Northern Cape. De Beers Mining Company has AGM at ...
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UPDATED: 05/05/2020 Assuredly something historically important happened in Kimberley on this day, but the information has not yet been found. The research continues, but not at this very moment as we are all locked down and the research library is ...
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UPDATED: 04/05/2020 4 May 1867, SA cricketer Nic Theunissen born in Colesberg. Daniel Smith introduces the dummy pass to rugby The ‘dummy” pass is regarded as an integral part of rugby from primary school right up to international level, and ...
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