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UPDATED: 14/10/2019 14 October 1899, The siege of Kimberley begins. It will last 124 days DID YOU KNOW In the Kimberley region before the war began on 11 October 1899, Boer commandoes had been gathering at Boshof and on the ...

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 ...

UPDATED: 06/04/2018 6 April 1900, Distribution of the Queen’s chocolate to the Town Guard. 6 April 1901, Brigadier General Brabant arrives in Kimberley. 6 April 1984, Ben Fouche sets the amateur course record of 66 at the Kimberley course. DID ...

UPDATED: 14/07/2017 14 July 1858, Black prisoners massacred by farmers near Boshof. 14 July 1964, SA hockey player Wally Ubsdell dies. DID YOU KNOW LIFE AT THE DIGGINGS No.4 Trade, Stores and Stocks Having gone the round of all the ...

UPDATED: 16/03/2017 16 March 1972, JB Robinson  opens his Diamond Merchant’s office on Main Street, New Rush. 16 March 1899, Seventh Session of the Cape Colony Mayoral Conference begins in Kimberley. DID YOU KNOW In the Boshof military cemetery, a ...