Tag Archives: Alfred Beit

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 of the Life Governors of De Beers, dies. DID YOU KNOW Sir Julius Charles Wernher, ...

UPDATED: 09/05/2018 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 ...

27 March 1902, Flags fly at half-mast in respect of the late Cecil John Rhodes. Pictured is the Death Mask of Cecil Rhodes, believed to made by the sculptor John Tweed. This original mask was stolen from the cottage at ...

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 the Boers. ...

UPDATED: 01/02/2018 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. ...

22 August 1873, The first recorded Jewish birth in Kimberley, Victor Rosettenstein. 22 August 1885, Lionel Phillips marries Florrie Ortlepp at All Saints Church, Beaconsfield. Pictured are both Lionel Phillips and Florrie Ortlepp. DID YOU KNOW Sir Lionel Phillips, 1st ...

3 August 1840, Sir James B Robinson, born. 3 August 1870, Transvaal President Pretorius has a claim at Klipdrift. DID YOU KNOW Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, (pictured), 1st Baronet, son of an 1820 settler, was born in Cradock on 3 ...

18 July 1873, SA cricketer Bertie Powell born. 18 July 1878, The Thompson family attacked by Kgosi Galeshewe at Cornforth Hill. 18 July 1889, De Beers Consolidated Mines pays Barney Barnato £5 338 650.00 for his Kimberley Mine and assets. ...

16 July 1871, Esau Demoense discovers the world’s richest diamond mine, later named the Kimberley Mine. 16 July 1894, Andrew Hudson Bain of Bains Vlei dies in Kimberley. 16 July 1884, Vooruitzucht Estate, except the mining areas, handed over to ...

UPDATED: 16/03/2017 16 March 1972, JB Robinson  opens his Diamond Merchant’s office on Main Street, New Rush. 16 March 1899, Seventh Session of the Cape Colony Mayoral Conference begins in Kimberley. DID YOU KNOW In the Boshof military cemetery, a ...