During the Diamond Digging days, Kimberley was renowned for the variety and number of its bars. It is said that during the peak of the diamond rush Kimberley had more pubs than pharmacies and [...]
The Anglo Boer South African War began on 11 October 1899, and within four days Kimberley was besieged by Boer soldiers.The unforgiving circle of Boers trapped the citizens of the town, including [...]
Kimberley’s brief history is but a fleeting blip in a local pageant which, as archaeologists have shown, reaches back deep into the past. An introductory sweep through 3 million years of [...]
A 4-5 hours Drive and Walk, it is sometimes known as the Freedom Trail or Struggle Trail. Prior to 1994 little was known about the history of the black people of South Africa other than what was [...]
Discover the history of Kimberley through the eye of a Tswana, Griqua or San person, all three indigenous to the region. A mixture of first and third world, the tour takes you through historic [...]
An historic tour of Kimberley following in the footsteps of Cecil John Rhodes, Barney Barnato, Alfred Beit, Dr Leander Starr Jameson and other diamond mining magnates. The start off point is at [...]
The Eldorado Trail is centred in and around Kimberley’s Central Business District (CBD), taking in well over 50 historic buildings and sites. From diamond magnates Sir Ernest Oppenheimer [...]
A fascinating and very informative historical walk that spans the City Centre and the Kimberley North suburb. Sites such as where the first traffic lights in Kimberley were erected, the [...]
Death on the diamond diggings and later during the Anglo-Boer War, gave Kimberley many haunted corners. So too did failed romance and other downright gory deaths, like a huge fire in the old De [...]
Opulent lifestyles, famous people, unique architecture, entertaining anecdotes and gossip of years gone by, as well as the ambiance of Kimberley’s first exclusive residential suburb are what [...]
