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 ...
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UPDATED: 20/04/2018 20 April 1886, Gladstone Hotel near the railway station opens. DID YOU KNOW That the current De Beers suburb was first named Gladstone after the English Prime Minister of the time, William Ewart Gladstone, the name being in use ...
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UPDATE: 10/02/2017 10 February 1887, St Alban’s Anglican Church consecrated. 10 February 1900, Funeral of George Labram. Pictured is a Long Tom gun used by the Boers; the barrel of Long Tom being shortened in the Pretoria workshops – this is ...
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