Tag Archives: Kimberley City Hall

UPDATED: 13 JANUARY 2023 13 January 1900, The price of meat raised – beef 1/- and horse flesh 9 pennies per pound. Excerpt from “The Siege of Kimberley” – Its Humourous and Social Side – by T Phelan. Week ending ...

UPDATED: 02/09/2022 2 September 1882, The southern hemisphere’s first street lights switched on in Kimberley. First electric street lights in the southern hemisphere Electric streetlights made their appearance in 1882, with 16 electric streetlights, four of them outside the City ...

UPDATED: 31/08/2022 31 August 1918, CBC Building Fund have produce sale at the City Hall. 31 August 1945, 1000 people attend opening of the Red Cross fete held at the Kbly Regiment. The Kenilworth Village Orchards “The shade and fruit ...

UPDATED: 12/08/2022 12 August 1952, Olympic gold medallist Esther Brand (pictured) has civic reception at city hall and is given another gold medal by the Mayor. Streets named after sporting heroes Namibia’s capital Windhoek has a suburb (Olympia) where many ...

UPDATED: 25/07/2022 25 July 1901, Original Synagogue on Dutoitspan Road sold on public auction. 25 July 1965, William Benbow Humphreys, (pictured) art collector extraordinaire dies. 25 July 2002, Great CBC athlete and Springbok rugby player Pat Lyster dies. (Pictured is ...

UPDATED: 13/06/2022 13 June 1876, Kimberley’s first black policemen, 50 Zulus, arrive for duty. 13 June 1902, Reception for General Sir John French at the City Hall. 13 June 1964, Neville le Cordeur inaugurated as Lions Club President. 13 June ...

UPDATED: 17/03/2022 17 March 1899, Seventh Session of the Cape Colony Mayoral Conference second day. 17 March 1934, Prince George visits Kimberley. PRINCE GEORGE ARRIVES IN KIMBERLEY Prince George, the Duke of Kent, was the fifth child of King George ...

UPDATED: 07/03/2022 7 March 1896, Theo Samuels takes 7 for 42 for GW against England. 7 March 1900, Refugees given passes to leave Kimberley. 7 March 1923, Diamond buyer William Thompson killed by Delville Wood survivor Arthur Stanley, at Rus ...

UPDATED: 24/02/2022 24 February 1944, Master Builders Association of Kimberley re-constituted. 24 February 1967, Finsch Mine officially opened by Dr T E Donges. 24 February 2015, Massive storm hits Kimberley – 100 mm of rain in less than an hour. ...

UPDATED: 18/02/2022 18 February 1900, Worst day of the war for the British army with more than 1100 casualties at Paardeberg. 18 February 1929, Kimberley’s second Post Office on Market Square opens for business. 18 February 1966, St Boniface Mission ...