UPDATED: 29/05/2019 29 MAY 1901, 128 carat diamond found at Klipdam. DID YOU KNOW What on earth do Jack the Ripper of the London Whitechapel murders and infamous poison murderess Daisy de Melker (pictured) have to do with Kimberley? Read ...
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UPDATED: 28/03/2019 28 March 1880, Bishop Webb dedicates St Cyprian’s Church in Jones Street. 28 March 1923, The Beaconsfield Club re-opens after being destroyed by fire. 28 March 1939, Eustace Fredrick Raynham DSO, dies. 28 March 1964, Opening of the Dutoitspan Mine ...
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UPDATED: 15/03/2019 15 March 1902, Kimberley Town Bowling Clubhouse opened. 15 March 1928, Wilfrid Gore-Brown, first Anglican Bishop of Kimberley, dies. 15 March 1930, Bishop Herman Meysing OMI consecrated in St Mary’s Cathedral. 15 March 1934, Kimberley’s first Coloured Mayor, ...
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01 March 1883, Water from the Vaal River supplied to town houses. 01 March 1893, 144 businesses apply for either new or to renew liquor licenses. 01 March 1894, Solomon T Plaatje begins working at Kimberley Post office. 01 March ...
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UPDATED: 31/01/2019 Every now and again there will be nothing to report on today in Kimberley’s history. While matters of historical interest assuredly happened in Kimberley on this very day, they have not yet been “found” and research is on-going……. ...
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UPDATE: 07/11/2018 7 November 1889, SA cricketer “Dusty” Tapscott born. 7 November 1901, Opening of the Soldiers’ Institute on Stockdale Street. 7 November 1955, The Black Sash have a meeting in Kimberley to open a branch. 7 November 1990, McGregor ...
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UPDATED: 04/05/2018 4 May 1867, SA cricketer Nic Theunissen born in Colesberg. DID YOU KNOW The Griqualand West Chamber of Commerce (now NOCCI) was inaugurated in June 1880 with 54 foundation members, including Haarhoffs, the only member firm that still ...
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2 March 1877, St Augustine’s Church opens in West End. 2 March 1896, Lease on “The Bungalow” transferred from Richard Solomon to Charles Rudd. 2 March 1900, Cecil Rhodes leaves for Cape Town after the siege. DID YOU KNOW Rudd ...
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UPDATED: 08/09/2017 8 September 1882, Second wing of the Queen’s Hotel opens. 8 September 1892, South African International Exhibition opens in Kimberley. 8 September 1897, St Patrick’s Christian Brothers’ College (pictured) founded. 8 September 1910, African miners go on strike at Wesselton Mine. ...
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UPDATE: 10/02/2017 10 February 1887, St Alban’s Anglican Church consecrated. 10 February 1900, Funeral of George Labram. Pictured is a Long Tom gun used by the Boers; the barrel of Long Tom being shortened in the Pretoria workshops – this is ...
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