Harry Frederick Oppenheimer OMSG was a prominent South African businessman,industrialist and philanthropist. Oppenheimer was often ranked as one of the wealthiest people in the world,and was considered South Africa's foremost industrialist for four decades. In 2004 he was voted 60th in the SABC3's Great South Africans.
Colonel Sir Thomas Robert Gore Browne was a British colonial administrator,who was Governor of St Helena,Governor of New Zealand,Governor of Tasmania and Governor of Bermuda.
Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It is located approximately 110 km east of the confluence of the Vaal and Orange Rivers. The city has considerable historical significance due to its diamond mining past and the siege during the Second Anglo-Boer war. British businessmen Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato made their fortunes in Kimberley,and Rhodes established the De Beers diamond company in the early days of the mining town.
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer,was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur,financier and philanthropist,who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.
General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope was a British soldier and colonial administrator.
Alfred Beit was an Anglo-German gold and diamond magnate in South Africa,and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure development on the African continent. He also donated much money to university education and research in several countries,and was the "silent partner" who structured the capital flight from post-Boer War South Africa to Rhodesia. Beit's assets were structured around the so-called Corner House Group,which through its holdings in various companies controlled 37 per cent of the gold produced at the Witwatersrand's goldfields in Johannesburg in 1913.
Barney Barnato was a British Randlord and diamond magnate who was one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining,and later,gold mining in South Africa from the 1870s up to World War I. He was known as a rival of Cecil Rhodes.
Colonel William Eagleson Gordon,VC,CBE was a Scottish British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross,the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He is the older brother of Archibald Alexander Gordon,who received the Legion of Honour and Order of Leopold.
Alexander Edward Murray,8th Earl of Dunmore,known by the courtesy title Viscount Fincastle until 1907,was a Scottish peer,soldier and politician.
The Cape Town Highlanders is a reserve mechanised infantry regiment of the South African Army.
Sir Julius Charles Wernher,1st Baronet was a German-born Randlord,diamond magnate,and art collector who became part of the English establishment.
South African Jews,whether by culture,ethnicity,or religion,form the twelfth largest Jewish community in the world,and the largest on the African continent. As of 2020,the Kaplan Centre at the University of Cape Town estimates 52,300 Jews in the country. The South African Jewish Board of Deputies estimates that the figure is closer to 75,000.
Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson,1st Baronet was a South African gold and diamond mining magnate and Randlord.
Kgosi (Chief) Galeshewe,,was a chief of the Batlhaping group in South Africa. He was an anti-colonial revolutionary and orchestrated rebellions against the Cape Colony government. The Galeshewe Township in the Sol Plaatje Municipality,Kimberley,has been named after him. A South African Navy fast attack craft has also been named after him. Galeshewe was born in 1835 near Taung,South Africa.
The Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment,is a reserve armoured car reconnaissance unit of the South African Army.
The Battle of Paardeberg or Perdeberg was a major battle during the Second Anglo-Boer War. It was fought near Paardeberg Drift on the banks of the Modder River in the Orange Free State near Kimberley.
This article describes the history of South African cricket from its known beginnings until the end of the First World War in 1918.
Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff,1st Baronet was a South African cold storage magnate and politician. Graaff revolutionized the cold storage industry in Africa. He founded the Imperial Cold Storage and Supply Company in 1899,and aggressively ran it until he left to serve in government. Graaff grew the company into one of the largest in Africa. Graaff's wealth soared,at the turn of the century. During World War I he personally part financed the South African war effort and for this he was knighted as well as for services at the Paris Peace Conference 1919.
The siege of Kimberley took place during the Second Boer War at Kimberley,Cape Colony,when Boer forces from the Orange Free State and the Transvaal besieged the diamond mining town. The Boers moved quickly to try to capture the area when war broke out between the British and the two Boer republics in October 1899. The town was ill-prepared,but the defenders organised an energetic and effective improvised defence that was able to prevent it from being taken.
The South African National Bowls Championships is organised by Bowls South Africa (BSA). The first National Singles Championships were held in 1897 in Kimberley despite the fact that the South African Bowls Association was not formed until 1904.
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