UPDATED: 18/02/2021 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 ...
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UPDATE: 10/02/2021 10 February 1887, St Alban’s Anglican Church consecrated. 10 February 1919, Railway Engineer George Pauling dies. RAILWAY ENGINEER AND PIONEER DIES George Craig Sanders Pauling (pictured here with his first wife) was the engineer and the man in ...
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4 February 1884, West Indian Samuel Trott, murders storekeeper John Jackson in Dutoitspan village. MURDER IN DUTOITSPAN VILLAGE It is difficult to imagine a citizen of the West Indies islands being executed for murder in Kimberley, but that is exactly ...
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UPDATE: 27/01/2021 27 January 1910, A liberal supporter of all sports, James A Hill of Hill and Paddon, dies at his home “Violet Bank” on Park Road. DID YOU KNOW James (Jimmy) Alfred Hill was born in Bristol, England in ...
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UPDATED: 30/09/2020 30 September 1872, Ernest Moses horse-whipped by JB Robinson. 30 September 1904, Lord Roberts VC visits Kimberley for the last time. 30 September 1920, City Engineer Thomas Cullen retires after 40 years in the position. 30 September 1934, ...
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UPDATED: 04/09/2020 4 September 1890, Cecil Rhodes entertained at a civic function to celebrate his election as Cape Premier. 4 September 1905, Viennese band conductor Herr Carl Rybnikar marries Edith Kearns. 4 September 1973, Harry Oppenheimer becomes a Freeman of ...
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UPDATED: 02/09/2020 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: 28/08/2020 28 August 1879, Cornerstone of the new St Cyprians Church on Jones Street laid by Charles Warren. 28 August 2015, Northern Cape MEC of Education, Grizelda Cjiekella-Lecholo (pictured), dies suddenly. Grizelda ‘Zaza’ Boniwe Cjiekella-Lecholo Grizelda Boniwe Cjiekella-Lecholo, known ...
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UPDATED: 14/05/2020 14 May 1878, Griquatown besieged by the Griqua people. 14 May 1902, Royal Munster Fusiliers Promenade concert in aid of Nazareth House. 14 May 1903, Three Black miners killed in a mud rush in the De Beers Mine. ...
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UPDATED: 13/05/2020 13 May 1888, Telegraphist Alfred Cogill dies. 13 May 1915, Anti-German riots after sinking of SS Lusitania. 13 May 1980, The Kimberley Drive-In theatre opens to all races. Mob runs riot in Kimberley, looting and burning The Cunard ...
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