UPDATE: 24/04/2023 24 April 1884, South Africa’s first industrial strike begins, by miners. 24 April 1941, Steam tram derails at Kenilworth terminus. White miners go on strike. The white miners at all four Kimberley mines went on strike in April ...
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UPDATED: 20/04/2023 20 April 1886, Gladstone Hotel near the railway station opens. The Gladstone suburb – now De Beers suburb That the current suburb known as De Beers was first named Gladstone after the English Prime Minister of the time, ...
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UPDATE: 10/02/2023 10 February 1887, St Alban’s Anglican Church consecrated. 10 February 1900, Funeral of George Labram. 10 February 1919, Railway Engineer George Pauling dies. ST ALBAN’S CHURCH ON TAKOON SQUARE St Alban’s Anglican church on Takoon Square, De Beers ...
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