UPDATED: 17/01/2019 17 January 1885, First mining compound opened at the Kimberley Mine by the French Company. (Pictured is the Bultfontein Mine compound in circa 1905). DID YOU KNOW It has always been believed, quite erroneously, that De Beers Consolidated ...
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UPDATED: 14/01/2019 14 January 1871, First official mail from Cape Town to Klipdrift dispatched. DID YOU KNOW It was on 15 October 1870 that the first mail was dispatched from the Diamond Fields to Cape Town, this via Bloemfontein and ...
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UPDATED: 10 January 2019 10 January 1884, Dynamite explosion kills two miners at the De Beers Mine. 10 January 1887, Irvine Grimmer (pictured) takes 16 wickets for 83 runs for Strayklips vs WP CC. DID YOU KNOW Irvine Grimmer is not ...
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UPDATE: 27/11/2018 27 NOVEMBER 1896, Rinderpest reported in Taung region. 27 NOVEMBER 1899, What is now the Wesselton Mine christened officially the Premier Mine. DID YOU KNOW Rinderpest decimated the cattle population of most of southern Africa north of the ...
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UPDATED: 23/11/2018 23 November 1899, The Battle of Belmont. 23 November 1918, Official death toll from the Spanish Flu in Kimberley announced – 4861. 23 November 2006, Upgraded Kimberley Mine Museum opens. 23 November 2013, Dog rescued from the Big Hole. ...
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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. DID YOU KNOW Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, founder of the Anglo-American ...
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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 ...
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10 October 1873, Cecil Rhodes begins studying at Oxford University. 10 October 1888, Foundation stone for the Masonic Temple (pictured) on Dutoitspan Road laid. 10 October 1904, Kimberley Regiment awarded the King’s Colours. 10 October 1961, Mrs R Goble shoots the ...
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UPDATED: 08/10/2018 8 October 1918, Spanish Flu has Kimberley in its deathly grip and fatalities mount. DID YOU KNOW On this day, 8 October 1918, the Spanish Flu epidemic had Kimberley in its death grip. Both the Kimberley High School ...
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5 October 1894, Bevil Gordon D’Urban Rudd MC born. 5 October 1895, Nazareth House Chapel opens for worship. 5 October 1990, Inaugural Barney Barnato Golf Tournament. DID YOU KNOW Bevil Rudd, (pictured), the grandson of co-founder Charles Rudd of the ...
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