UPDATED: 14/10/2025 14 October 1899, The siege of Kimberley begins. It will last 124 days Telegraphic communications cut with outside world In the Kimberley region before the war began on 11 October 1899, Boer commandoes had been gathering at Boshof ...
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UPDATED: 06/06/2025 6 June 1900, Official welcome to the Kimberley Mounted Corps on their return from relieving Mafeking. 6 June 1911, John Weston gives first public performance in an aeroplane. 6 June 1943, Well-known artist and architect William Timlin (pictured) ...
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UPDATED: 07/04/2025 7 April 1881, JB Robinson takes his seat in the Cape Legislative Assembly. 7 April 1904, Gladstone Park opens. 7 April 1972, SA cricketer Gerhardus Liebenberg born in Upington. The Artist Philip Bawcombe Philip William Bawcombe was born ...
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UPDATED: 26/03/2025 26 March 1902, Cecil Rhodes, aged 49 years, dies in Muizenburg. 26 March 1905, St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church foundation stone laid. 26 March 1930, First “Talkie” movie in Kimberley. 26 March 1969, Kimberley’s main public swimming pool, named after ...
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UPDATED: 05/07/2024 5 July 1853, Cecil John Rhodes born at Bishop’s Stortford, England. 5 July 1873, The settlement known as “New Rush” is named Kimberley. 5 July 1873, Klipdrift re-named Barkly West. 5 July 1915, John Misherley, Greek owner of the Union Hotel on ...
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UPDATED: 14/06/2024 14 June 1897, Barney Barnato (pictured) jumps overboard and drowns on his way to England. 14 June 1977, SA cricketer Boeta Dippenaar born. Barney Barnato drowns near Madeira Barney Barnato, an English “diamond king,” promoter, and speculator; was ...
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UPDATED: 17/05/2024 17 May 1900, The great Market Square fire. 17 May 1900, Mafeking relieved by a column that included the Kimberley Mounted Corps. 17 May 1906, Foundation stone of Belgravia School laid by Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson. 17 May 1938, ...
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