UPDATED: 29/11/2024 29 November 1890, Olive Schreiner meets Cecil Rhodes for the first time. 29 November 1899, The military funeral of Major Henry Scott-Turner, Black Watch in Gladstone cemetery, killed with 22 of his men the previous day. 29 November 1965, Clarence ...
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UPDATED: 17/07/2024 17 July 1885, Beaconsfield Public School opens. 17 July 1890, Cecil Rhodes (pictured) becomes Premier of the Cape Colony. 17 July 1910, The biggest man in Kimberley, Andrew Bennie, dies. Cecil Rhodes becomes Premier of the Cape Colony Cecil ...
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7 December 1872, Olive Schreiner arrives in Kimberley for her first stay. 7 December 1950, A party held in honour of Miss Maria Wilman. FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE McGREGOR MUSEUM Maria Wilman (pictured) was born on 29 April 1867 in Beaufort West, ...
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UPDATED: 25/08/2023 25 AUGUST 1904, De Beers takes over the town council electricity 25 AUGUST 1954, Gallery founder Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin dies. Photographer extraordinaire Alfred Duggan-Cronin Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin (pictured) was an Irish-born South African photographer who undertook several photographic and collecting ...
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