UPDATED: 09/05/2019 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: 06/05/2019 6 May 1887, De Beers MC AGM held at their new offices for first time in Warren Street. 6 May 2009, Hazel Jenkins (pictured) inducted as Premier of the Northern Cape. DID YOU KNOW Hazel Gertrude Jenkins is ...
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UPDATED: 05/04/2019 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: 12/03/2019 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 ...
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UPDATE: 22/02/2019 22 February 1938, Mr Oosthuizen of Beaconsfield killed in a quarry blasting accident. DID YOU KNOW On Tuesday 22 February 1938 a Mr Oosthuizen of 30 Dyer Place, Beaconsfield, was killed in a blasting accident in a quarry ...
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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: 17/01/2019 17 January 1885, First mining compound opened at the Kimberley Mine by the French Company. (Pictured is the Bultfontein Mine compound in circa 1905). DID YOU KNOW It has always been believed, quite erroneously, that De Beers Consolidated ...
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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: 14/11/2018 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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29 October 1872, Harry Barnato, the elder brother of Barney, stages his first show on the Diamond Fields. 29 October 1888, William Hart accidentally killed in the Kimberley Mine. DID YOU KNOW The less well-known brother of Barney Barnato, Henry ...
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