UPDATED: 20/03/2023 20 March 1946, Famous author Henry Vollam Morton visits Kimberley while working on his forthcoming book “In Search of South Africa”. 20 March 1964, CBC pupil Sean Michael Cleary is the Northern Cape winner of the “Shakespeare” contest ...
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UPDATED: 17/03/2023 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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13 February 1946, Joseph van Praagh, Pioneer of Rhodesia dies. JOSEPH VAN PRAAGH – A MASONIC LEGEND Joseph Van Praagh (pictured) was born in the County of Middlesex, England on 15 July 1864 and died in Kimberley on 13 February ...
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UPDATED: 08/02/2023 8 February 1900, City Hall architect Fergus Carstairs-Rogers hit by Long Tom shell splinter in the Kimberley Club. 8 February 1947, Cornelia Smith and her stepson Reginald electrocuted in their Greenside home. CITY HALL ARCHITECT HIT BY LONG ...
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UPDATED: 24/01/2023 24 January 1900, Biggest bombardment of Kimberley by the Boers during the siege, Maggie Maddocks killed. 500 SHELLS FIRED INTO KIMBERLEY ON THIS DAY The Boer reply to the British 28.1 pounder Long Cecil gun took a few ...
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UPDATE: 28/11/2022 28 November 1885, The first train arrives in Kimberley. 28 November 1899, The second and bloodiest battle of Carter’s Ridge. 28 November 1899, The Battle of Modder River. 28 November 1904, Dedication of the Honoured Dead Memorial. 28 November 1988, Naming of ...
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UPDATED: 15/11/2022 15 November 1869, Bultfontein Mine bought by Lilienfeld, Webb and Hond. 15 November 1914, Robert G Kekewich commits suicide in England. 15 November 1965, Don McHardy Memorial Fountain (pictured) unveiled at railway station. 15 November 1977, Robert Sobukwe ...
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UPDATED: 11/11/2022 11 NOVEMBER 1888, De Beers Board passes resolution of Rhodes to build Kenilworth village for the white miners. 11 NOVEMBER 1899, First person, a black woman, killed by Boer shelling during the siege. 11 NOVEMBER 1918, Armistice Day. ...
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4 November 1899, General C.J. Wessels demands immediate surrender of Kimberley. 4 November 1927, City Hall architect Fergus Carstairs-Rogers MBE, dies. (Pictured is Fergus and Lucy Carstairs-Rogers, and the City Hall he designed.) The death of Fergus Carstairs-Rogers Fergus Carstairs-Rogers ...
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1 NOVEMBER 1886, Fire destroys the first Kimberley Club. 1 NOVEMBER 1899, De Beers’ dynamite magazine blown up at Dronfield. 1 NOVEMBER 1902, Two Africans killed in a mud rush in the De Beers Mine. 1 NOVEMBER 1952, Three municipal ...
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