UPDATED: 31/07/2023 31 July 1886, Railway Station opens. 31 July 1897, First competition for the Rhodes Challenge Cup at the Kimberley Golf Club. 31 July 1901, Foundation stone of the new Jewish Synagogue laid by Gustav Bonas. 31 July 1908, Mining of ...
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UPDATED: 28 July 2023 28 July 2016, Kimberley artist Jill Adams dies. Renowned Kimberley artist Jill Adams (nee Burrow) The renowned artist Jill Adams passed away in Somerset West on Thursday 28 July 2016, her death being largely unheralded other ...
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UPDATED: 25/07/2023 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. Also pictured ...
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UPDATED: 13/07/2023 13 July 1940, Salvation Army building in Crossman Road opened by Commissioner Cunningham. 13 July 1949, Springbok rugby player JWE “Klondyke” Raaff dies. 13 July 1990, Retired chief librarian Olive McIntyre dies. 13 July 1993, Artist Nellie du ...
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7 July 1977, Phakamile Mabija dies after “falling” from the 6th floor of the Tvl Rd police station Phakamile Mabija (1950 – 1977) Phakamile Mabija, aged 27 years, was a black anti-Apartheid activist, and member of the Anglican Nomads Educational ...
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UPDATED: 03/07/2023 3 July 1873, Reverend Gway Tyamzashe ordained the first black minister in Kimberley. 3 July 1890, The Kimberley Golf Club formed. 3 July 1901, Kimberley’s first motor car, a Panhard Levassor, hits the streets. 3 July 1901, Syce Moti of the Bengal ...
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UPDATED: 30/06/2023 30 June 1875, Black Flag Rebellion peters out with the arrival of British troops. 30 June 1882, Kimberley’s police force 86 whites and 2 africans. 30 June 1895, Sister Henrietta and the Anglican sisters leave the hospital. 30 ...
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UPDATED: 26/06/2023 26 June 1884, Neville Pickering falls out of a horse trap and is injured. 26 June 1940, German internees arrive at Andalusia. The internment camps at Andalusia and Ganspan The Vaalharts Irrigation Scheme – an idea of Rhodes’ in ...
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UPDATED: 23/06/2023 23 June 1891, South African Teachers Association meets in Kimberley. Visiting teachers royally entertained It was at a Cape Town conference in 1887 that the South African Teacher’s Association was formally constituted, having been a Cape Colony orientated ...
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UPDATED: 20/06/2023 20 June 1882, St Mary’s Catholic school for boys opens on Currey Street. 20 June 1884, George Stanley, the first white man to be executed in Kimberley, hanged at the Transvaal Road gaol together with Samuel Trott. 20 June ...
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