UPDATED: 19/03/2025 19 March 1869, Star of South Africa diamond arrives in Hopetown. 19 March 1889, Author Sarah Gertrude Millin (nee Liebson) born in Lithuania. Sarah Gertrude Millin (nee Liebson) Sarah Gertrude Millin (pictured) was born in Lithuania on 19 ...
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UPDATED: 28/06/2024 28 June 1882, Annie Penton, an elderly lady found with lots of gold and cash, arrested for IDB. 28 June 1902, Presentation of General Service medals to the Kimberley Regiment. 28 June 1903, Frank Mandy, compound manager and ...
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29 September 1874, Fire destroys Kimberley’s first hospital. 29 September 1887, The Hospital Chapel inaugurated. 29 September 1964, Ezekiel Siame trapped in De Beers mine for 3 days after mud rush. (Pictured is the Kimberley Hospital in 1907) The Kimberley ...
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UPDATED: 29/06/2023 29 June 1882, A 120 carat diamond and a 78 carat diamond found in the Elma Mining Company claims in the De Beers mine. The Elma Mining Company The Elma Mining Company, one of myriad such in the ...
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16 DECEMBER 1848, Title deeds to the farm Bultfontein granted to JF Otto. 16 DECEMBER 1899, Mayor of Beaconsfield, Fred Blacking, dies in harness. DID YOU KNOW There were many diggers who moved away from the crowded alluvial diggings along ...
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Electricity Interruptions now in their third week have been extended from two to three hours in the Northern Cape towns of Vanderkloof, Griekwastad, and Hopetown. Electricity supply interruptions to Tsatsabane Local Municipality has been suspended after the municipality and Eskom reached and ...
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