UPDATE: 24/04/2020 24 April 1884, South Africa’s first industrial strike begins, by miners. 24 April 1941, Steam tram derails at Kenilworth terminus. Miners go on strike in Kimberley The white miners at all four Kimberley mines went on strike in ...
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30 DECEMBER 1909, Mrs NO Ruffel, wife of well-known Kimberley pharmacist, dies in Durban, 1909 DID YOU KNOW Every now and again a brick wall is hit when researching an individual or an event, and the Ruffel family of Kimberley is ...
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UPDATED: 23/05/2022 23 May 1886, Foundation stone of All Saints Church in Beaconsfield laid. 23 May 1900, Presentation to Town Council by Dr R Harris of Cecil Rhodes’ portrait. 23 May 2013, Sylvia Lucas inducted as Premier of the Northern ...
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DID YOU KNOW? That Kimberley’s link with the Royal Air Force and the Battle of Britain in WW 2 is not just with Group Captain AG “Sailor” Malan? Two other Kimberley men involved were Sir Christopher Quentin Brand and Albert ...
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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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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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