Tag Archives: Dutoitspan Mine

UPDATED: 09/07/2019 9 July 1847, Henrietta Stockdale born in England. 9 July 1871, First baptism entry – Leonard Hinton – at the Catholic church in Bultfontein by Father Hidien. 9 July 1891, A big explosion occurs at De Beers Head ...

UPDATED: 28/06/2019 28 June 1882, Annie Penton, an elderly lady found with lots of gold and cash, arrested for IDB. 28 June 1902, Presentation of General Service medals to the Kimberley Regiment. 28 June 1903, Frank Mandy, compound manager and ...

UPDATED: 07/06/2019 7 June 1898, Five miners die in fall of mine cage at De Beers mine. DID YOU KNOW The year 1904 saw the entire De Beers Board of Directors meet with the Kimberley Chamber of Commerce and Industry ...

UPDATED: 20/05/2019 20 May 1883, Robert Milne murdered in Beaconsfield. 20 May 1889, Beaconsfield Public Library and Institution officially opened. 20 May 1895, De Beers Mine Recreation Room, formerly the Boardroom, opens. 20 May 1947, Retired Head librarian John Gow Ross ...

UPDATED: 07/05/2019 7 May 1962, The Grand Old Man of the Kimberley regiment, Mossie Rodwell, dies. 7 May 1994, The first Premier of the Northern Cape, Manne Dipico, inducted. DID YOU KNOW Walter John “Mossie” Rodwell was born on 21 ...

UPDATED: 06/05/2019 6 May 1887, De Beers MC AGM held at their new offices for first time in Warren Street. 6 May 2009, Hazel Jenkins (pictured) inducted as Premier of the Northern Cape. DID YOU KNOW Hazel Gertrude Jenkins is ...

UPDATED: 29/04/2019 29 April 1884, The Miners strike in Kimberley ends in disaster with seven white miners shot dead by police and militia. 29 April 1901, 3rd Battalion Leinster Regiment arrive in Kimberley. 29 April 1927, KHS Old Boys Union ...

UPDATE: 24/04/2019 24 April 1884, South Africa’s first industrial strike begins, by miners. 24 April 1941, Steam tram derails at Kenilworth terminus. DID YOU KNOW The white miners at all four Kimberley mines went on strike in April 1884 because ...

UPDATED: 17/04/2019 17 April 1904, Memorial to the Cape Police who died in the Anglo-Boer War unveiled. 17 April 1912, Formal leave taking of Reverend Harris Isaacs by the Jewish community. 17 April 1946, Main building of Girls High School ...

13 March 1882, A miner killed in a fall of ground at Dutoitspan Mine. 13 March 1902, Presentation to Archdeacon Holbech on his departure for Bloemfontein. (Pictured is the Reverend William Holbech and the St Cyprian’s Church Kimberley. Photographs from ...