UPDATED: 06/09/2021 6 September 1928, Springbok rugby player Ed Cotty dies at the Pulsator Works. 6 September 1937, Griqua rugby player and administrator JR de Melker dies. 6 September 1980, Kimberley Regiment Band involved in bus accident. Pictured is Piper ...
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UPDATED: 17/06/2021 17 June 1871, Carl Lotz discovers a 93 carat diamond at Bultfontein mine. Poddy Shein remembered with affection Herman Louis Shein, affectionately known to all as “Poddy”, had a great sense of humour, and would have appreciated the ...
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UPDATED: 09/05/2019 9 May 1890, The first camera club in SA is established in Kimberley with eighteen members. 9 May 1962, De Beers Sea Scout Brian Freeman awarded Boy Scout Association Meritorious Award for rescuing a woman in distress in the ...
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