George Labram
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 10 FEBRUARY
UPDATE: 10/02/2026 10 February 1887, St Alban’s Anglican Church consecrated. 10 February 1900, Funeral of George Labram. 10 February 1919,…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 09 FEBRUARY
UPDATE: 09/02/2026 9 February 1887, Goldfields company started by Cecil Rhodes and Charles Rudd. 9 February 1900, George Labram, designer of…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 19 JANUARY
UPDATE: 19/01/2026 19 January 1900, The Long Cecil gun, designed by American George Labram, and built in the De Beers…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY – 05 DECEMBER
UPDATED: 05/12/2025 5 DECEMBER 1924, Robert Sobukwe (pictured) born in Graaff Reinet. 5 DECEMBER 1941, Ganspan internment camp closed and all…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY – 28 NOVEMBER
UPDATE: 28/11/2025 28 November 1885, The first train arrives in Kimberley. 28 November 1899, The second and bloodiest battle of Carter’s…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY – 14 NOVEMBER
UPDATE: 14/11/2025 14 November 1901, The renovated, improved Wesley Church re-opens in West End. WESLEYANS IN EARLY KIMBERLEY Some of…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 13 AUGUST
UPDATED: 13/08/2025 13 August 1924, Marthinus Kruger dies after a rugby injury during practice. 13 August 2016, Professor Elaine Rosa…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 4 AUGUST
4 August 1902, Opening of the Vaal River Estate (Sydney) diamond diggings. 4 August 1911, Ferdinand Schuler, Managing Director of the…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 4 JULY
4 July 1953, Cecil Rhodes Museum opens at the cottage where he died in Muizenberg. USA citizens and their Kimberley…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 02 APRIL
UPDATED: 02/04/2025 Nothing to show today. Undoubtedly something happened in Kimberley this very day in history, but is not yet…
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