UPDATED: 17/03/2020 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 ...
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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. MASTER BUILDERS ...
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18 February 1929, Kimberley’s second Post Office on Market Square opens for business. 18 February 1966, St Boniface Mission Church burns down. 18 February 1977, Town Hall on Market Square declared a National Monument. 18 February 1990, Francis Noah Terry ...
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UPDATED: 13 JANUARY 2020 13 January 1900, The price of meat raised – beef 1/- and horse flesh 9 pennies per pound. Excerpt from “THE DIARY OF A DOCTOR’S WIFE” During the Siege of Kimberley October 1899 to February 1900 ...
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UPDATE 12/11/2019 12 NOVEMBER 1907, A child dies after being hit by a tram on the municipal tramline on Barkly Road. 12 NOVEMBER 1936, Britain lose to Kimberley Combined bowls side 159-74 at Beaconsfield. 12 NOVEMBER 1953, Sportsman and attorney ...
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UPDATED: 08/10/2019 8 October 1918, Spanish Flu has Kimberley in its deathly grip and fatalities mount. 8 October 1931, Dairyman William Doyle dies after falling down a well at Ronaldsvlei. DID YOU KNOW On this day, 8 October 1918, the ...
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UPDATED: 04/09/2019 4 September 1890, Cecil Rhodes entertained at a civic function to celebrate election as Premier. 4 September 1905, Viennese band conductor Herr Carl Rybnikar marries Edith Kearns. 4 September 1973, Harry Oppenheimer becomes a Freeman of Kimberley. DID ...
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UPDATED: 02/09/2019 2 September 1882, The southern hemisphere’s first street lights switched on in Kimberley. DID YOU KNOW Electric streetlights made their appearance in 1882, with 16 electric streetlights, four of them outside the City Hall. Kimberley was the first ...
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UPDATED: 13/08/2019 13 August 1924, Marthinus Kruger dies after a rugby injury during practice. DID YOU KNOW The Gladstone cemetery on Kenilworth Road is not Kimberley’s oldest such, but does appear to boast the most historical and interesting graves of ...
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UPDATED: 12/08/2019 12 August 1952, Olympic gold medallist Esther Brand (pictured) has civic reception at city hall and is given a another gold medal by the Mayor. DID YOU KNOW Namibia’s capital Windhoek has a suburb (Olympia) where many of ...
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