UPDATED: 21/01/2021 21 January 1872, Church school opens its doors in Dutoitspan. 21 January 1900, Long Cecil gun fires its first shell in anger at the Boers. 21 January 1931, Sydney de Melker, a Kimberley Springbok rugby player, marries the notorious ...
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UPDATE: 19/01/2021 19 January 1900, The Long Cecil gun, designed by American George Labram, and built in the De Beers Workshops, is tested. 19 January 1906, South Africa’s first Inter Colonial Poultry Conference in Kimberley. (Pictured is the Long Cecil ...
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UPDATE: 18/01/2021 18 January 1908, The municipal Merryweather fire engine, now in the mine museum, replaced. 18 January 1977, Belgravia Girls’ Junior and Kimberley Boy’s Junior amalgamate to form Kimberley Junior School. AMALGAMATION FORMS KIMBERLEY JUNIOR SCHOOL Kimberley Junior School ...
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UPDATED: 15/01/2021 15 January 1877, Murderer William Danster executed in Kimberley. 15 January 1897, Secretary of De Beers CM, William Henry Craven dies in the USA. 15 January 1901, Catholic Bishop Anthony Gaughren OMI dies. 15 January 1942, Springbok rugby player AFW ...
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4 DECEMBER 1899, Work ceases in the De Beers Mine because of the siege. 4 DECEMBER 1901, The first annual sports meeting of Christian Brothers’ College. 4 DECEMBER 1907, The equestrian statue of Cecil Rhodes unveiled by Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson. ...
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UPDATED: 01/12/2020 1 DECEMBER 1899, Traffic Manager of Cape Government Railways Thomas More dies. 1 DECEMBER 1906, De Beers Benefit Society operates from new building in Stockdale Street. THE DEATH OF HENRY SCOTT-TURNER The death of a personal friend, Henry ...
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17 November 1871, The first Commissioners for Kimberley arrive from the Cape. 17 November 1904, Premier Mine re-named Wesselton Mine. 17 November 1912, 15 year old Jack Chappell dies in Kenilworth after eating tainted ham. PREMIER MINE RE-NAMED WESSELTON MINE ...
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UPDATED: 11/11/2020 11 NOVEMBER 1888, De Beers Board passes resolution of Rhodes to build Kenilworth village for the white miners. 11 NOVEMBER 1899, First person killed by Boer shelling during the siege. 11 NOVEMBER 1918, Armistice Day. 11 NOVEMBER ...
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UPDATE – 10/11/2020 10 NOVEMBER 1952, Mass funeral at West End cemetery for those killed in the Mayibuye uprising. 10 NOVEMBER 1977, Sabotage attack by MK made on an admin building in Galeshewe township. Tragedies in Kimberley over time Kimberley has had ...
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2 NOVEMBER 1933, Colonel Deneys Reitz, Minister of Lands and Irrigation, announces the proposed VaalHarts Project, the biggest conservation and irrigation scheme ever attempted in South Africa. 2 NOVEMBER 1952, Brother McManus celebrates 50th Anniversary of Religious Life with a ...
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