24 June 1901, Cecil Rhodes pays his last visit to the town where he made his fortune. Rhodes pays his last visit to the town where he made his fortune Cecil Rhodes’ last visit to Kimberley was when passing through ...
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 09 MAY
UPDATED: 09/05/2025 9 May 1890, The first camera club in SA is established in Kimberley with eighteen members. 9 May 1962, De Beers Sea Scout Brian Freeman awarded Boy Scout Association Meritorious Award for rescuing a woman in distress in the ...
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY – 19 NOVEMBER
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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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 2 JANUARY
Three men killed and four wounded in a shoot-out that starts at Market square and ends at the railway station. The perpetrator is mortally wounded.
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