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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 17 MARCH
UPDATED: 17/03/2026 17 March 1899, Seventh Session of the Cape Colony Mayoral Conference second day. 17 March 1934, Prince George…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 30 JANUARY
UPDATED: 30/01/2026 30 January 1884, Arthur E Caldecott awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal. 30 January 1903, Mrs Joseph Chamberlain (Mary…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY – 31 OCTOBER
31 October 1883, Samuel Austen elected the first Mayor of Beaconsfield. 31 October 1899, Food rationing introduced during the siege.…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY – 27 OCTOBER
27 OCTOBER 1896, Death of Reverend Gway Tyamzashe, the last black man to hold a claim in the Big Hole.…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 17 JULY
UPDATED: 17/07/2025 17 July 1885, Beaconsfield Public School opens. 17 July 1890, Cecil Rhodes (pictured) becomes Premier of the Cape Colony.…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 8 JULY
UPDATED: 08/07/2025 Nothing as yet found that happened on this very day in Kimberley’s history. Et quaerere semper. SISTER JESSIE…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 17 JUNE
UPDATED: 17/06/2025 17 June 1871, Carl Lotz discovers a 93 carat diamond at Bultfontein mine. Poddy Shein remembered with affection…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 5 JULY
UPDATED: 05/07/2024 5 July 1853, Cecil John Rhodes born at Bishop’s Stortford, England. 5 July 1873, The settlement known as “New…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 18 APRIL
UPDATED: 18/04/2024 18 April 1860, Title deeds to the farm Vooruitzicht granted to the De Beers brothers. 18 April 1900,…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY – 23 NOVEMBER
UPDATED: 23/11/2023 23 November 1899, The Battle of Belmont. 23 November 1918, Official death toll from the Spanish Flu in…
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