UPDATED: 21/01/2020 21 January 1872, Church school opens its doors in Dutoitspan. 21 January 1900, Long Cecil gun fires its first shell in anger at the Boers. 21 January 1931, Sydney de Melker, a Kimberley Springbok rugby player, marries the notorious ...
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UPDATE: 14/11/2019 14 November 1901, The renovated, improved Wesley Church re-opens in West End. WESLEYANS IN EARLY KIMBERLEY Some of the [early] diggers [in Kimberley] were Wesleyans and endeavoured to keep up the forms of religion. The Rev. J. Thorne ...
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8 NOVEMBER 1899, Huge swarms of locusts invade Kimberley. 8 NOVEMBER 1905, Massive fire destroys EW Tarry’s Works. 8 NOVEMBER 1918, Spanish Flu Relief committee formed. 8 NOVEMBER 1952, Mayibuye Uprising in No 2 Galeshewe – 13 killed. (Also see ...
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UPDATED: 30/10/2019 30 October 1954, Horse racing returns to Kimberley after a 21 year absence. 30 October 1966, Renowned Brother Mac (McManus) of CBC dies. 30 October 1997, Craig Brown awarded the Gold Class Bravery Award. 30 October 2010, Struggle ...
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17 October 1871, The Keate Award made public. 17 October 1918, Champion golfer of the Diamond Fields Robert S Chatfield dies in epidemic. DID YOU KNOW Lt Robert Sivewright Chatfield (pictured) served during the siege of Kimberley with the Kimberley ...
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UPDATED: 16/09/2019 16 September 1901, Frans Matlap dies during blasting operations at De Beers mine. 16 September 1920, Andrew Kiddie, the founder of the bakery, dies. 16 September 1925, Architect Daniel W Greatbatch dies. 16 September 1964, Clarence Edward Crowther ...
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12 September 1944, Lt Lafase Moolman dies after his Oxford aeroplane crashes during night training at 21 Air Flying School. 12 September 1949, Claude Benette kills Frederick Scholtz opposite the West End cemetery. DID YOU KNOW The discovery of a ...
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UPDATED: 06/09/2019 6 September 1928, Springbok rugby player Ed Cotty dies at the Pulsator Works. 6 September 1937, Griqua rugby player and administrator JR de Melker dies. 6 September 1980, Kimberley Regiment Band involved in bus accident. Pictured is Piper ...
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UPDATE: 30/08/2019 30 August 1890, Foundation stone laid for the new Municipal complex in Stockdale Street. DID YOU KNOW Two postcards circa 1907 are depicted showing quite clearly the Kimberley municipal compound (complex) at the time. Both photographs are taken ...
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UPDATED: 28/08/2019 28 August 1879, Cornerstone of the new St Cyprians Church on Jones Street laid by Charles Warren. 28 August 2015, Northern Cape MEC of Education, Grizelda Cjiekella-Lecholo, dies suddenly. DID YOU KNOW St Cyprian’s Church in Jones Street ...
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