Historical

Updated: 28/04/2022 28 April 1880, De Beers Mining Company formed by Cecil Rhodes, Charles Rudd, Robert Dundas Graham and others. Pictured are Cecil Rhodes and Charles Rudd circa late 1870s DE BEERS MINING COMPANY FORMED The De Beers Mining Company ...

UPDATED: 26/04/2022 26 April 1874, SA cricketer James Anderson born. 26 April 1915, 2nd Battalion Kimberley Regiment suffers losses at Trekkopjes, SWA. 26 April 1932, The Transvaal Road Police station siege ends in the killer policeman Christoffel Viljoen being shot ...

UPDATED: 25/04/2022 25 April 1886, Daughter of Sir JB Robinson, Elizabeth, dies. 25 April 1901, Lt-Colonel David Harris and Lt-Colonel Finlayson awarded the CMG. 25 April 1905, The Kimberley-Alexandersfontein electric railway opens. Robert Finlayson CMG Robert Alexander Finlayson CMG (pictured) was ...

UPDATED: 22/04/2022 22 April 1891, Newton Home opened by Reverend JD Kestell (pictured). 22 April 1980, 1200 city pupils join nationwide boycott of schools. A Willingness to Serve John Daniel Kestell’s life was characterised by a willingness to serve. The ...

UPDATED: 21/04/2022 21 April 1898, Phokwane native reserve confiscated by Cape Government proclamation. 21 April 1959, Manne Dipico, first Premier of the Northern Cape Province born. 21 April 1967, Harold Arthur Morris honoured as the Fourth Freeman of Kimberley for ...

UPDATED: 20/04/2022 20 April 1886, Gladstone Hotel near the railway station opens. The Gladstone suburb – now De Beers suburb That the current suburb known as De Beers was first named Gladstone after the English Prime Minister of the time, ...

UPDATED: 19/04/2022 19 April 1913, Sol Plaatje’s newspaper becomes Tsala ea Batho. Plaatje’s Tsala ea Batho newspaper Sol Plaatje‘s major concern at this time was in politics and in combating the government through his skill as a writer. Unfortunately, his ...

UPDATED: 14/04/2022 14 April 1960, SA Protea cricketer Patrick Symcox born. 14 April 1982, Sonny Leon Library opens in Roodepan. Happy 62nd Birthday Pat Symcox Patrick Leonard Symcox (born 14 April 1960 in Kimberley to Rodger and Joan Symcox) is ...

UPDATED: 13/04/2022 13 April 1898, The Town Council approves the new Town Hall to be built on Market Square. 13 April 1900, Tolls end in Kimberley after being gazetted. 13 April 1917, Springbok Septimus Ledger killed in action at Arras. ...

11 April 1891, Kimberley win the Currie Cup cricket in Johannesburg. KIMBERLEY WINS THE CURRIE CUP CRICKET 131 years ago today. It took only the one year before Kimberley (Griqualand West) regained the Currie Cup for cricket in 1891, the ...