UPDATED: 23/03/2022 23 March 1872, First game of cricket in Kimberley when Natalians beat Port Elizaberthans. 23 March 1876, Dedication of the “new” Freemasons Hall in Dutoitspan Road. 23 March 1878, First issue of the Diamond Fields Advertiser, Kimberley’s newspaper. ...
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UPDATED: 03/03/2022 Assuredly something important happened on this day in Kimberley’s history, but has not yet been found. Research continues… RUGBY’S DUMMY PASS – STARTED IN KIMBERLEY The ‘dummy” pass is regarded as an integral part of rugby from primary ...
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UPDATED: 20/01/2022 20 January 1900, Proving, sighting and slight adjustments to the Long Cecil gun (pictured) are made. DEATH FROM DISEASE RUNS RAMPANT DURING THE SIEGE Rationing of foodstuffs was not seriously adhered to until the military authorities realized that ...
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UPDATED: 14/01/2022 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 ...
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UPDATED: 13 JANUARY 2022 13 January 1900, The price of meat raised – beef 1/- and horse flesh 9 pennies per pound. Excerpt from “The Siege of Kimberley” – Its Humourous and Social Side – by T Phelan. Week ending ...
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UPDATED: 10 January 2022 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. Irvine Grimmer – a great sportsman ...
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UPDATED: 16/11/2021 16 November 1883, The SA Perm founded in Kimberley. 16 November 1896, Theodore Samuels, who scored the first ever try for the Springboks, dies. 16 November 1898, Foundation stone of the Market Square Town Hall laid by Moses Cornwall. ...
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UPDATED: 05/11/2021 5 November 1905, SA cricketer George Bissett is born. 5 November 1978, Vusi Tukakhomo, first full-time black reporter at the DFA, appointed. The birth of an international cricket player George Finlay Bissett was born in Kimberley on 5 ...
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28 October 1908, Harry Oppenheimer born at 7 Lodge Road, Belgravia. The Birth of Harry Oppenheimer Harry Frederick Oppenheimer was born in the family home “Friedberg” at 7 Lodge Road, Belgravia Kimberley on 28 October 1908. His father, later Sir ...
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4 October 1884, William Griffin murders Grace Kelt at “The Flag is Ours” Club in Dutoitspan village. Pictured is a drawing of Dutoitspan village in the 1870s Murder at “The Flag is Ours” Club This tragic headline appeared in the ...
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