11 September 1896, Train accident on Dronfield farm kills stoker W.H. Wonnacott. 11 September 1905, Thomas Raaff accidentally killed in the De Beers Mine. Deadly train accident on Dronfield farm There have been two train accidents on Dronfield farm. Both ...
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UPDATED: 13/08/2020 13 August 1924, Marthinus Kruger dies after a rugby injury during practice. 13 August 2016, Professor Elaine Rosa Salo (pictured) dies in the USA. In Memoriam: Elaine Salo From: University of Delaware Arts and Sciences Department of Women ...
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UPDATED: 14/07/2020 14 July 1858, Black prisoners massacred by farmers near Boshof. 14 July 1950, USA women’s hockey team beat Griqualand West women 2-1. 14 July 1964, SA hockey player Wally Ubsdell dies. Kenilworth Springbok hockey player Wally Ubsdell Walter ...
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UPDATED: 24/03/2020 24 March 1881, Orange River in flood, pont not working. 24 March 1883, Gladstone cemetery (pictured) opens. 24 March 1894, CW Jones of Kimberley wins the 100 yds in 10.1 secs to be Champion of South Africa. HISTORICAL ...
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UPDATED: 23/03/2020 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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UPDATE: 10/02/2020 10 February 1887, St Alban’s Anglican Church consecrated. 10 February 1919, Railway Engineer George Pauling dies. RAILWAY ENGINEER AND PIONEER DIES George Craig Sanders Pauling (pictured here with his first wife) was the engineer and the man in ...
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UPDATED: 29/11/2019 29 November 1890, Olive Schreiner (pictured) meets Cecil Rhodes for the first time. 29 November 1899, The military funeral of Major Henry Scott-Turner, Black Watch in Gladstone cemetery, killed with 22 of his men the previous day. 29 November 1965, Clarence ...
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UPDATED: 11/11/2019 11 NOVEMBER 1888, De Beers Board passes resolution of Rhodes to build Kenilworth village for the white miners. 11 NOVEMBER 1899, First person, a black woman, killed by Boer shelling during the siege. 11 NOVEMBER 1918, Armistice ...
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27 September 1893, GE Chatfield, uncle of the First Sea Lord The Baron Chatfield, dies. 27 September 1901, Maj-General Pretyman leaves Kimberley to take up an appointment in India. DID YOU KNOW George Eugene Chatfield was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, ...
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12 July 1888, Rescue attempts continue at the De Beers Mine disaster as hundreds of miners escape the underground fire. Pictured are GM of De Beers at the time of the disaster, Gardner Williams, and the Memorial at Gladstone cemetery. ...
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