Tag Archives: World War 2

UPDATED: 29/01/2021 29 January 1961, Fatima Shrine in Galeshewe suburb opens for worship. 29 January 1980, Kuruman man wins R35 000 first prize in the Bonus Bonds draw. The Bonus Bonds In the late 1970s and 1980s there was an ...

UPDATE: 08/12/2020 8 DECEMBER 1871, Dutoitspan appointed as the seat of magistracy for Pniel District, 1871. 8 DECEMBER 1877, GW Legislative Council disbanded. 8 DECEMBER 1946, Two men killed when their aeroplane crashes at Kimberley Airport. DID YOU KNOW Two ...

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: 05/10/2020 5 October 1894, Bevil Gordon D’Urban Rudd MC born. 5 October 1895, Nazareth House Chapel opens for worship. 5 October 1990, Inaugural Barney Barnato Golf Tournament. Nazareth House Chapel opens The construction on the Nazareth House chapel began ...

27 August 1914, Kimberley Defence Rifle Association formed. 27 August 1916, SA rugby player and cricketer Tony Harris born. Tony Harris – Kimberley’s rugby and cricket Springbok Terence Anthony Harris, known to all and sundry as Tony, was born in ...

UPDATED: 07/08/2020 7 August 1873, Thespian band enliven cricket match at Barkly West with music. 7 August 1889, Pirate King George Danford, founder of the Pirates Club, leaves Kimberley. 7 August 2003, World renowned poet and former CBC pupil Frank Prince (pictured) ...

UPDATED: 31/07/2020 31 July 1886, Railway Station opens. 31 July 1897, First competition for the Rhodes Challenge Cup at the Kimberley Golf Club. 31 July 1901, Foundation stone of the new Jewish Synagogue laid by Gustav Bonas. 31 July 1908, Mining of ...

UPDATED: 20/07/2020 20 July 1971, Basil Humphreys, (pictured), benefactor of Kimberley and son of William, dies. Basil William Clayton Humphreys DSC. The son of William Benbow Humphreys and Maude Elizabeth Humphreys (nee Searle), Basil was born in Kimberley on 22 ...

UPDATED: 26/06/2020 26 June 1884, Neville Pickering falls out of a horse trap and is injured. 26 June 1940, German internees arrive at Andalusia. The internment camps at Andalusia and Ganspan The Vaalharts Irrigation Scheme – an idea of Rhodes’ in ...

UPDATED: 16/06/2020 16 June 1896, 14 Kimberley residents drown when SS Drummond Castle sinks, 1896 16 June 1998, Businessman Poddy Shein (pictured) dies. Poddy Shein remembered with affection Herman Louis Shein, affectionately known to all as “Poddy”, had a great ...