Steve Lunderstedt
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Today in Kimberley's History
TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 17 JULY
UPDATED: 17/07/2025 17 July 1885, Beaconsfield Public School opens. 17 July 1890, Cecil Rhodes (pictured) becomes Premier of the Cape Colony.…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 16 JULY
UPDATE: 16/07/2025 16 July 1871, Esau Demoense discovers the world’s richest diamond mine, later named the Kimberley Mine. 16 July…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 15 JULY
UPDATED: 15/07/2025 15 July 1871, Diamond News reports that there are 43 graves in Dutoitspan cemetery. 15 July 1916, The…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 14 JULY
UPDATED: 14/07/2025 14 July 1950, USA women’s hockey team beat Griqualand West women 2-1. 14 July 1964, SA hockey player…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 11 JULY
11 July 1878, Louis Hond found guilty of buying two diamonds from Africans. 11 July 1888, The world’s worst diamond…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 10 JULY
UPDATED: 10/07/2025 10 July 1871, John Daniel Kestell (pictured) arrives in Kimberley as a youth. 10 July 1902, Presentation to Colonel RG…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 9 JULY
UPDATED: 09/07/2025 9 July 1847, Henrietta Stockdale born in England. 9 July 1871, First baptism entry – Leonard Hinton –…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 8 JULY
UPDATED: 08/07/2025 Nothing as yet found that happened on this very day in Kimberley’s history. Et quaerere semper. SISTER JESSIE…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 7 JULY
7 July 1977, Phakamile Mabija dies after “falling” from the 6th floor of the Tvl Rd police station Phakamile Mabija…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 4 JULY
4 July 1953, Cecil Rhodes Museum opens at the cottage where he died in Muizenberg. USA citizens and their Kimberley…
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