Historical

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 ...

UPDATED: 17/05/2019 17 May 1900, The great Market Square fire. 17 May 1900, Mafeking relieved by a column that included the Kimberley Mounted Corps. 17 May 1938, Duggan-Cronin Gallery opened by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer. 17 May 1972, Sonny Leon resigns ...

16 May 1899, Headmaster of Kimberley Boy’s High School, LC Wilkes, dies of typhus. DID YOU KNOW Leopold Complin Wilkes (pictured) was the second Headmaster of Kimberley Boy’s High School, serving in that capacity from 1893 until his untimely death ...

UPDATED: 15/05/2019 15 May 1915, Ernest Oppenheimer rescued from a mob. DID YOU KNOW The resignation of Ernest Oppenheimer as Mayor of Kimberley and as a Town Councillor on 12 May 1915 as a result of the sinking of the ...

UPDATED: 14/05/2019 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. ...

UPDATED: 13/05/2019 13 May 1888, Telegraphist Alfred Cogill dies. 13 May 1915, Anti-German riots after sinking of RMS Lusitania. 13 May 1980, The Kimberley Drive-In theatre opens to all races. DID YOU KNOW The Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania was ...

UPDATED: 10/05/2019 10 May 1889, Beaconsfield Public Library opens. 10 May 1919, Robert Close, Manager of the Kimberley Mine, dies after a short illness. DID YOU KNOW The Beaconsfield Library has always been in what is now known as the ...

UPDATED: 09/05/2019 9 May 1890, The first camera club in SA is established in Kimberley with eighteen members. 9 May 1962, De Beers Sea Scout Brian Freeman awarded Boy Scout Association Meritorious Award for rescuing a woman in distress in the ...

UPDATED: 07/05/2019 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 Walter John “Mossie” Rodwell was born on 21 ...

UPDATED: 06/05/2019 6 May 1887, De Beers MC AGM held at their new offices for first time in Warren Street. 6 May 2009, Hazel Jenkins (pictured) inducted as Premier of the Northern Cape. DID YOU KNOW Hazel Gertrude Jenkins is ...