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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4 November 1899, General C.J. Wessels (pictured) demands immediate surrender of Kimberley. 4 November 1927, City Hall architect Fergus Carstairs-Rogers MBE, dies. DID YOU KNOW Cornelis (Kerneels) Janse Wessels (11 June 1842 – 10 October 1914) He was a farmer ...
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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 Black miners killed in a mud rush in the De Beers Mine. 1 NOVEMBER 1952, Three municipal ...
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31 October 1883, Samuel Austen elected the first Mayor of Beaconsfield. 31 October 1899, Food rationing introduced during the siege. 31 October 1899, Boers fire first shell at Wesselton from Olifantsfontein position. 31 October 1936, Dick Beewers survives a fall ...
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28 October 1908, Harry Oppenheimer (pictured) born at 7 Lodge Road, Belgravia. DID YOU KNOW Harry Frederick Oppenheimer was born in the family home “Friedberg” at 7 Lodge Road, Belgravia Kimberley on 28 October 1908. His father, later Sir Ernest, ...
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23 October 1907, De Beers swimming pool on Warren Street opened to the public. DID YOU KNOW The De Beers’ swimming bath opened to the public on 23 October 1907. From its inception the Kimberley Boys’ High School pupils had ...
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21 October 1871, Gladstone suburb in use. 21 October 1968, Statue of Danie Theron unveiled at Alexandersfontein. DID YOU KNOW This suburb was first named Gladstone after the English Prime Minister of the time, the name being in use as ...
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17 October 1871, The Keate Award made public. 17 October 1918, Champion golfer of the Diamond Fields Robert S Chatfield dies in epidemic. DID YOU KNOW Lt Robert Sivewright Chatfield (pictured) served during the siege of Kimberley with the Kimberley ...
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UPDATE: 16/10/2019 16 October 1886, Neville Pickering, Rhodes’ friend and secretary of De Beers Mining Company, dies. 16 October 1886, London office of De Beers opens. 16 October 1897, Richard Bawden accidentally killed in the De Beers Mine. 16 October 1939, Charlotte Maxeke, ...
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15 October 1880, Griqualand West incorporated into the Cape Colony. 15 October 1885, Richard Stable accidentally killed in the Kimberley Mine. 15 October 1899, Martial law proclaimed in Kimberley besieged by Boers. 15 October 1910, SA cricketer Xenophon Balaskas born. 15 October 1913, Edward ...
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