UPDATE: 24/04/2020 24 April 1884, South Africa’s first industrial strike begins, by miners. 24 April 1941, Steam tram derails at Kenilworth terminus. Miners go on strike in Kimberley The white miners at all four Kimberley mines went on strike in ...
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UPDATED: 20/04/2020 20 April 1886, Gladstone Hotel near the railway station opens. Arrival of the railway a boon to Kimberley The arrival of the railway in November 1885 changed forever the way citizens of Kimberley would travel and sounded the ...
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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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