3 June 1932, Colonel Herbert S Harris dies. 3 June 1952, Official opening of Belgrave Lodge by Harry Oppenheimer. Also pictured is the house “Lancaster Lodge” where Herbert Harris died and his Fob Watch won in a shooting competition. The ...
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UPDATED: 21/05/2025 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. 21 May 1993, Miner Freddie Dicks saves ...
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UPDATED: 09/05/2025 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 ...
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22 August 1873, The first recorded Jewish birth in Kimberley, Victor Rosettenstein. 22 August 1885, Lionel Phillips marries Florrie Ortlepp at All Saints, Beaconsfield. 22 August 1922, The death of Gardner Williams, first GM of De Beers. Florrie Ortlepp and ...
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18 July 1874, SA cricketer Bertie Powell born. 18 July 1878, The Thompson family attacked by Kgosi Galeshewe’s force at Cornforth Hill. 18 July 1889, De Beers Consolidated Mines pays Barney Barnato £5 338 650.00 for his Kimberley Mine. 18 ...
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UPDATE: 16/07/2024 16 July 1871, Esau Demoense discovers the world’s richest diamond mine, later named the Kimberley Mine. 16 July 1884, Vooruitzucht Estate, except the mining areas, handed over to the Council. 16 July 1894, Andrew Hudson Bain of Bains ...
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UPDATE: 15/02/2024 15 February 1853, Alfred Beit, financial genius, born in Hamburg. 15 February 1882, Street Lights tested in Kimberley, but they fail. 15 February 1900, Kimberley is relieved in 1900 by General French after 124 days of siege by ...
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01 February 1876, The High Court of Griqualand West moves from Barkly West to Kimberley. 01 February 1899, Tramline between Kimberley and Kenilworth opens. 01 February 1909, Alfred Beit House, the hostel for girls at Kimberley GHS, opens. 01 February ...
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3 August 1840, Sir Joseph B Robinson Bart, born. 3 August 1870, ZAR (Transvaal) President Pretorius has a claim at Klipdrift. Robinson – famous Randlord and Mayor of Kimberley Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, (pictured), 1st Baronet, son of an 1820 ...
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Updated: 28/04/2023 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 ...
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