16 DECEMBER 1848, Title deeds to the farm Bultfontein granted to JF Otto. 16 DECEMBER 1899, Mayor of Beaconsfield, Fred Blacking, dies in harness. DID YOU KNOW There were many diggers who moved away from the crowded alluvial diggings along ...
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UPDATED: 06/07/2018 6 July 1858, The battle of Slypklip where Kausob defeated by a Boer commando. 6 July 1968, Author Sarah Gertrude Millin (pictured) dies. Sarah Gertrude Millin was born in Lithuania on 10 March 1888, in a village consisting of ...
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2 February 1881, Kimberley Stock Exchange opens. 2 February 1901, All businesses in Beaconsfield closed as a mark of respect for the death of Queen Victoria. 2 February 1948, Bevil Gordon D’Urban Rudd MC dies. DID YOU KNOW Bevil Rudd, ...
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After almost 100 years, and three generations later, Kimberley saw the end of an era when Alan Chan Yan handed over the keys to K&B Stores in Beaconsfield to the new owner at the end of last month. DFA Oct 17 ...
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A CLASS 25 condensing locomotive has been entrusted “on loan” to Steamnet 2000 in the Northern Cape and last weekend saw a live steamer slowly towing the locomotive at 30km/h to safe storage in Germiston. A spokesman for Steamnet 2000 said ...
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Five suspects have been apprehended and police seized weapons and two vehicles used in a cash in transit heist at K&B Supermarket in Kimberley, around 10am this morning. According to provincial commissioner Risimati Shivuri, part of the stolen cash has been ...
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