Tag Archives: Vaal River

UPDATED: 28/06/2021 28 June 1882, Annie Penton, an elderly lady found with lots of gold and cash, arrested for IDB. 28 June 1902, Presentation of General Service medals to the Kimberley Regiment. 28 June 1903, Frank Mandy, compound manager and ...

UPDATED: 26/05/2021 26 May 1873, Formation of the Griqualand Mounted Police in Kimberley. 26 May 1884, SA cricketer Louis Stricker born in Beaconsfield. Louis Stricker from Beaconsfield Louis Anthony Stricker, a former South African Test batsman, died at Rondebosch, Cape ...

UPDATED: 16/03/2021 16 March 1871, JB Robinson opens his Diamond Merchant’s office on Main Street, New Rush. 16 March 1899, Seventh Session of the Cape Colony Mayoral Conference begins in Kimberley. Cecil Rhodes and his thoughts on death Cecil Rhodes’ ...

UPDATED: 09/03/2021 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……. ...

UPDATED: 15/01/2021 15 January 1877, Murderer William Danster executed in Kimberley. 15 January 1897, Secretary of De Beers CM, William Henry Craven dies in the USA. 15 January 1901, Catholic Bishop Anthony Gaughren OMI dies. 15 January 1942, Springbok rugby player AFW ...

2 NOVEMBER 1933, Colonel Deneys Reitz, Minister of Lands and Irrigation, announces the proposed VaalHarts 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 ...

UPDATED: 12/06/2020 Nothing has yet been found that happened this very day in Kimberley’s history. Research is ongoing, but not at the moment as the research library is closed. The Transport Hall (Holmes’ Garage) at the Mine Museum A display ...

UPDATED: 15/05/2020 15 May 1915, Ernest Oppenheimer rescued from a mob. Ernest Oppenheimer forced to leave Kimberley The resignation of Ernest Oppenheimer as Mayor of Kimberley and as a Town Councillor on 12 May 1915 as a result of the ...

UPDATE: 24/04/2020 24 April 1884, South Africa’s first industrial strike begins, by miners. 24 April 1941, Steam tram derails at Kenilworth terminus. Miners go on strike in Kimberley The white miners at all four Kimberley mines went on strike in ...

23 December 1909, The Vaal River rises 3 feet six inches overnight, 1909 DID YOU KNOW The region in which Warrenton is situated was part of the disputed area between the OFS, the Cape Colony and the Griqua nation. Originally known ...