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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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UPDATED: 26/05/2020 26 May 1873, Formation of the Griqualand Mounted Police in Kimberley. 26 May 1884, SA cricketer Louis Stricker (pictured) born in Beaconsfield. Louis Stricker from Beaconsfield Louis Anthony Stricker, a former South African Test batsman, died at Rondebosch, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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UPDATED: 16/03/2020 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. THE BOSHOF MILITARY CEMETERY In the Boshof military cemetery, ...
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UPDATED: 09/03/2020 9 March, Nothing found yet on this very day in Kimberley’s history. Research is ongoing. CANTEEN KOPPIE AT KLIPDRIFT (Barkly West) by Dr Mike de Witt. Canteen Koppie, a national monument of historical value, occurs next to Barkly ...
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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 ...
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21 DECEMBER 1873, The Griqualand West Legislative Council meets at Barkly West for the first time. 21 DECEMBER 1882, The water from the Vaal river to Kimberley successfully pumped, 1882. 21 DECEMBER 1664, John Power, (pictured), the second McGregor Museum ...
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