UPDATED: 11/11/2024 11 NOVEMBER 1888, De Beers Board passes resolution of Rhodes to build Kenilworth village for the white miners. 11 NOVEMBER 1899, First person, a black woman, killed by Boer shelling during the siege. 11 NOVEMBER 1918, Armistice Day. ...
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UPDATED: 15/03/2024 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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2 NOVEMBER 1933, Colonel Deneys Reitz, Minister of Lands and Irrigation, announces the proposed VaalHartz Project, the biggest conservation and irrigation scheme ever attempted in South Africa. 2 NOVEMBER 1952, Brother McManus celebrates 50th Anniversary of Religious Life with a ...
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UPDATED: 26/10/2023 26 OCTOBER 1888, Nazareth House opens on Dutoitspan Road. 26 OCTOBER 1892, SA rugby player Harry Boyes dies tragically. 26 OCTOBER 1897, Theatre Royal opens in Kimberley on Dutoitspan Road. 26 OCTOBER 1941, The altar of the re-built St ...
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UPDATED: 08/09/2023 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 founded. 8 September 1910, Black miners go on strike at Wesselton Mine. ...
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31 December 1887: Kimberley (GW) win the 4th Champion Bat cricket tourney. 31 December 1899: Pvt Kelly of the Kimberley Regiment found dead in the Big Hole. 31 December 1938: St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral destroyed by fire. 31 December 1953: ...
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