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  2. List of heritage sites in Kimberley - Wikipedia

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    Beaconsfield Library, 34 Central Road, Kimberley. Facebrick building with a hipped iron roof, surrounded by a verandah with facebrick columns. The building was built in about 1880 as the head office of the London and South African Exploration Type of site: Library Current use: Institutional : Library.

  3. Kimberley, Northern Cape - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Diamantveld High School - Wikipedia

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    Diamantveld High School. / -28.75072; 24.7727. Hoërskool Diamantveld is a public Afrikaans medium co-educational high school in Kimberley in the Northern Cape province of South Africa and the oldest Afrikaans school in Kimberley.

  5. St. Patrick's Christian Brothers' College, Kimberley - Wikipedia

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    Website. stpatricks.co.za. Christian Brothers’ College Kimberley (“CBC”), the first Christian Brothers’ College (School) in South Africa, was founded by the Christian Brothers from Ireland, UK on 8 September 1897. It is situated in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. The founder was E.I.Rice.

  6. Kimberley Junior School - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1970 when the junior section of "KHS" (Kimberley Boys' High School) moved, in July of that year, to a new school building in Monument Heights. Belgravia Junior School [ edit ] Belgravia Preparatory School was established in Elsmere Road in 1907 - its building forming the nucleus of the subsequent Girls' High School that moved to the ...

  7. McGregor Museum - Wikipedia

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    Today the museum has its headquarters at the old Kimberley Sanatorium building in Belgravia, Kimberley, and it has several satellites including the original building in Chapel Street. The museum was founded on 24 September 1907. By coincidence 24 September was chosen as Heritage Day, a public holiday in South Africa post-1994.

  8. Sol Plaatje University - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .spu .ac .za. The Sol Plaatje University, which had provisionally been referred to as the University of the Northern Cape, opened in Kimberley, South Africa, in 2014, accommodating a modest initial intake of 135 students. The student complement is expected to increase gradually towards a target of 7 500 students by 2024.

  9. Perseverance School - Wikipedia

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    The Perseverance School, Kimberley, was founded as such in 1883 but might be seen as having arisen from the St Cyprian's Mission School dating back to the early 1870s. Until 1917 it was officially called St Cyprian’s (E.C.) Mission School, [1] although known as Perseverance from 1884. For part of its history it was referred to in the plural ...