UPDATED: 04/09/2019 4 September 1890, Cecil Rhodes entertained at a civic function to celebrate election as Premier. 4 September 1905, Viennese band conductor Herr Carl Rybnikar marries Edith Kearns. 4 September 1973, Harry Oppenheimer becomes a Freeman of Kimberley. DID ...
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23 August 1875, Foundation stone for the Synagogue on D’Arcy Street laid. 23 August 1905, Springbok rugby player Wilfred Trenery (pictured) killed in a mining accident. DID YOU KNOW Wilfred Eldred Trenery was born in Hayle, Cornwall, England on 21 ...
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UPDATED: 13/08/2019 13 August 1924, Marthinus Kruger dies after a rugby injury during practice. DID YOU KNOW The Gladstone cemetery on Kenilworth Road is not Kimberley’s oldest such, but does appear to boast the most historical and interesting graves of ...
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2 August 1875, Mrs Jardine takes over the Queens Hotel. Pictured is the Queen’s Hotel in its heyday, and the view of Pniel from the Jardine’s Hotel. DID YOU KNOW Mrs Catherine Jardine’s Queen’s Hotel at 10 Stockdale Street was ...
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18 July 1874, SA cricketer Bertie Powell born. 18 July 1878, The Thompson family attacked by Galeshewe at Cornforth Hill. 18 July 1889, De Beers Consolidated Mines pays Barney Barnato £5 338 650.00 for his Kimberley Mine Company. DID YOU ...
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UPDATED: 17/07/2019 17 July 1890, Cecil Rhodes (pictured) becomes Premier of the Cape Colony. DID YOU KNOW Cecil Rhodes’ appointment at age 37 years as Premier of the Cape Colony on 17 July 1890 saw Kimberley acclaim him as “one of ...
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12 July 1888, Rescue attempts continue at the De Beers Mine disaster as hundreds of miners escape the underground fire. Pictured are GM of De Beers at the time of the disaster, Gardner Williams, and the Memorial at Gladstone cemetery. ...
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4 July 1953, Cecil Rhodes Museum opens at the cottage where he died in Muizenberg. DID YOU KNOW Today, the 4th of July, is Independence Day for the United States of America. A brief look at a few USA citizens ...
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31 May 1875, Ebden, Dunell and Company sell Vooruitzicht farm to the Cape Government for £100 000 Sterling. 31 May 1878, The Burness family murdered in the Kuruman region. 31 May 1902, End of the Anglo-Boer War. 31 May 1910, Union of ...
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30 May 1985, De Beers Head Office building declared a National Monument. 30 May 1986, Kimberley Africana Library opens. DID YOU KNOW The decision to retain the old Dutoitspan Road building, one of the oldest public buildings in Kimberley, as ...
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