Historical

25 MARCH 1885, Reverend J.D. Kestell (pictured) becomes the minister for the Dutch Reformed Newton congregation. 25 MARCH 1898, Rhodes presents his portrait by Herkomer to the Kimberley Club. 25 MARCH 1908, De Beers Rugby Football Club takeover the Rhodes ...

22 March 1978, Abraham Kotze (pictured) posthumously awarded the Chamber of Mines Award for Bravery. (The presentation of the Chamber of Mines Bronze Medal. Mrs Hetta Kotze (pictured) receiving the Bronze Medal from Chamber of Mines President LWP van den Bosch ...

UPDATED: 20/03/2019 20 March 1946, Famous author Henry Vollam Morton visits Kimberley while working on his forthcoming book In Search of South Africa. 20 March 1964, CBC pupil Sean Michael Cleary is the Northern Cape winner of the “Shakespeare” contest ...

UPDATED: 19/03/2019 19 March 1869, Star of South Africa diamond (pictured) arrives in Hopetown. 19 March 1889, Author Sarah Gertrude Millin (nee Liebson) born in Lithuania. DID YOU KNOW Sarah Gertrude Millin (pictured) was born in Lithuania on 19 March ...

UPDATED: 15/03/2019 15 March 1902, Kimberley Town Bowling Clubhouse opened. 15 March 1928, Wilfrid Gore-Brown, first Anglican Bishop of Kimberley, dies. 15 March 1930, Bishop Herman Meysing OMI consecrated in St Mary’s Cathedral. 15 March 1934, Kimberley’s first Coloured Mayor, ...

UPDATED: 14/03/2019 14 March 1887, Executioner King hangs murderer Michael King at the Kimberley gaol. 14 March 1891, Movement of earth closes the Harvey Shaft at the Kimberley Mine. 14 March 1920, Herbert Wright killed by love triangle rival Hubert ...

13 March 1882, A miner killed in a fall of ground at Dutoitspan Mine. 13 March 1902, Presentation to Archdeacon Holbech on his departure for Bloemfontein. (Pictured is the Reverend William Holbech and the St Cyprian’s Church Kimberley. Photographs from ...

UPDATED: 12/03/2019 12 March 1888, Formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines. 12 March 1888, Cecil Rhodes elected first Chairman of DBCM. 12 March 1907, First Coloured Swimming Championship of Griqualand West takes place at the Lyndhurst Rd baths. Organised by ...

UPDATED: 11/03/2019 11 March 1926, Kimberley-born James Henry “Biddy” Anderson, SA cricketer and SA rugby international, dies. DID YOU KNOW Written by Abhishek Mukherjee, the Chief Editor at Cricket Country and CricLife. Edited. James Henry ‘Biddy’ Anderson, born April 26, ...

UPDATED: 08/03/2019 8 March 1886, Phoenix Hotel in Beaconsfield established. 8 March 2017, Two policemen and one former policeman killed in a city shootout. DID YOU KNOW In the early 1880s, and as the Dutoitspan and Bultfontein mining camps began ...