Tag Archives: De Beers Consolidated Mines

UPDATED: 14/01/2025 14 January 1871, First official mail from Cape Town to Klipdrift dispatched. THE POST BETWEEN THE DIGGINGS AND CAPE TOWN It was on 15 October 1870 that the first mail was dispatched from the Diamond Fields to Cape ...

UPDATED: 10 January 2025 10 January 1884, Dynamite explosion kills two miners at the De Beers Mine. 10 January 1887, Irvine Grimmer takes 16 wickets for 83 runs for Strayklips vs WP CC. OUTSTANDING SPORTSMAN – IRVINE GRIMMER Irvine Grimmer ...

UPDATE: 27/11/2024 27 NOVEMBER 1896, Rinderpest reported in Taung region. 27 NOVEMBER  1899, What is now the Wesselton Mine christened officially the Premier Mine. RINDERPEST STRIKES IN TAUNG REGION Rinderpest decimated the cattle population of most of southern Africa north ...

UPDATED: 25/11/2024 25 November 1885, The railway line from the Cape reaches Kimberley. 25 November 1888, John Larkin Fry, Chief of Detective Department, dies. 25 November 1899, The first battle of Carter’s Ridge during the siege of Kimberley. 25 November ...

20 November 1874, The first massive landslip in the Kimberley Mine results in great loss of jobs. 20 November 1962, Bust of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer unveiled in the Oppenheimer Gardens. THE SIR ERNEST OPPENHEIMER BUST Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, founder of ...

19 November 1871, Fr Hidien, Catholic priest who began the first two hospitals in Kimberley, dies. 19 November 1886, Michael King kills the one-armed Charles Murray in Dutoitspan village. 19 November 1892, Kimberley Town Bowling Club opens, the 2nd in SA. 19 ...

10 October 1873, Rhodes begins studying at Oxford University. 10 October 1888, Foundation stone for the Masonic Temple on Dutoitspan Road laid. 10 October 1904, Kimberley Regiment awarded the King’s Colours. 10 October 1961, Mrs R Goble shoots the first ...

UPDATED: 08/10/2024 8 October 1918, Spanish Flu has Kimberley in its deathly grip and fatalities mount. 8 October 1931, Dairyman William Doyle dies after falling down a well at Ronaldsvlei. Kimberley in the death grip of Spanish Flu On this ...

3 October 1882, 3 miners killed in a slip of ground at Dutoitspan Mine. 3 October 1891, SA cricketer WVS (Vic) Ling born. 3 October 1898, Foundation stone of the Dutoitspan Lodge (Good Templars Hall) laid by James Lawrence MLA. 3 October ...

23 August 1875, Foundation stone for the Synagogue on D’Arcy Street laid. 23 August 1892, Thrice Mayor of Kimberley George Bottomley, dies. 23 August 1905, Springbok rugby player Wilfred Trenery (pictured) killed in a mining accident. Mining accident kills Springbok ...