UPDATED: 14/06/2018 14 June 1897, Barney Barnato jumps overboard and drowns on his way to England. 14 June 1977, SA cricketer Boeta Dippenaar born. DID YOU KNOW Barney Barnato, an English “diamond king,” promoter, and speculator; was born in London ...
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31 May 1875, Ebden, Dunell and Company sell Vooruitzicht farm to the Cape Government for £100 000 Sterling. 31 May 1902, End of the Anglo-Boer War. 31 May 1878, The Burness family murdered in the Kuruman region. 31 May 1910, Union of ...
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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 ...
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UPDATED: 05/04/2018 5 April 1886, Phoenix Hotel opens for business in Beaconsfield. 5 April 1886, William Hartley, an 1820 settler, dies. 5 April 1900, The battle of Boshof. 5 April 1902, Rhodes’ funeral train arrives in Kimberley. 5 April 1951, ...
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UPDATED: 12/03/2018 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 ...
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UPDATE: 22/02/2018 The British army totally encircle General Piet Cronje’s force at Paardeberg after General Christiaan de Wet withdraws from Oskoppies on the 21st, 1900 DID YOU KNOW? That D.M. Ramoshoana wrote a letter in 1932 to the Diamond Fields ...
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21 February 1851, Barney Barnato born in London. 21 February 1885, Foundation stone of the Newton NGK Church laid. 21 February 1894, 25 miners killed in a De Beers mine mudrush. 21 February 1899, England defeat GW XV by an Innings and 25 ...
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UPDATED: 17/01/2018 17 January 1885, First mining compound opened at the Kimberley Mine by the French Company. DID YOU KNOW It has always been believed, quite erroneously, that De Beers Consolidated Mines introduced the Compound system for black mineworkers into ...
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20 November 1874, The first massive landslip in the Kimberley Mine results in great loss of jobs. 20 November 1962, Bust of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer unveiled in the Oppenheimer Gardens. DID YOU KNOW Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, founder of the Anglo-American ...
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UPDATE: 14/11/2017 14 November 1901, The renovated, improved Wesley Church re-opens for services in West End. DID YOU KNOW Some of the [early] diggers [in Kimberley] were Wesleyans and endeavoured to keep up the forms of religion. The Rev. J. ...
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