UPDATE: 10/02/2020 10 February 1887, St Alban’s Anglican Church consecrated. 10 February 1919, Railway Engineer George Pauling dies. RAILWAY ENGINEER AND PIONEER DIES George Craig Sanders Pauling (pictured here with his first wife) was the engineer and the man in ...
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UPDATED: 07/02/2020 7 February 1900, Famous British golfer and Black Watch officer, Freddie Tait, killed fighting Boers at Koodoosberg. 7 February 1900, The Boer Long Tom fires into Kimberley for the first time at 11am. 7 February 1901, Military stores burnt out ...
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UPDATED: 13 JANUARY 2020 13 January 1900, The price of meat raised – beef 1/- and horse flesh 9 pennies per pound. Excerpt from “THE DIARY OF A DOCTOR’S WIFE” During the Siege of Kimberley October 1899 to February 1900 ...
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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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UPDATED: 11/01/2019 11 January 1905, Two books signed by Florence Nightingale donated to Library. 11 January 1916, 24 recently planted trees destroyed on Main Rd Beaconsfield. 11 January 1965, Body of five-year-old girl recovered from Otto’s Kopje mine. DID YOU ...
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6 January 1983: Armed robbers make off with R14 000 from a business situated in Cheapside. 6 January 1983: Jan Jacob van der Westhuizen, the gunman responsible for the deaths of three people on 2 January 1983, dies in Kimberley ...
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