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People of Kimberley

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This is a list of the famous and notable people from Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa.

Contents

A

  • Benny Alexander, who adopted the name Khoisan X, General Secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress
  • Diane Awerbuck, South African novelist.

    • B

  • Frances Baard, trade-unionist who grew up in Kimberley - and after whom the District Municipality is named.
  • Xenophon Constantine Balaskas, Springbok cricketer, 1930-1939.
  • Barney Barnato
  • Alfred Beit
  • Benjamin Bennett, author.
  • Dr Rudolph Bigalke, director of the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa (Pretoria), 1927 to 1962.
  • Rudolph Carl Bigalke, zoologist and one-time director of the McGregor Museum.
  • Collin Bosman 2010 FiFa World Cup Coordinator for Sol Plaatje Municipality Base Camp for Team URUGUAY.
  • Charl Bouwer, paralympic swimmer and 2012 gold medallist, born in Kimberley

    • C

  • Louis Cohen. author of Reminiscences of Kimberley (1911).

    • D

  • Clive Derby-Lewis, politician, imprisoned for his role in the assassination of Chris Hani. Born in Cape Town but grew up in Kimberley.
  • Manne Dipico
  • Frank Dobbin, rugby player

    • G

  • Kgosi Galeshewe, BaTlhaping leader and anti-colonial resistance leader.
  • Henry Richard Giddy, member of the Red Cap Party that led the rush on Colesberg Kopje or 'New Rush', later Kimberley

    • H

  • Dorian Haarhoff
  • Richard Henyekane, South African football striker.
  • William Benbow Humphreys (1889-1965), politician, founder of and principal benefactor behind Kimberley's William Humphreys Art Gallery, and recipient of the Freedom of the City of Kimberley.

    • J

  • Dan Jacobson, author.
  • Leander Starr Jameson

    • K

  • Victor Khojane, otherwise known as Dr Victor, reggae and R&B musician
  • Aggrey Klaaste, Editor of The Sowetan, grew up in Kimberley.
  • Bernard Klisser, after whom the Kimberley suburb Klisserville is named.
  • Jbe' Kruger, golfer.
  • Gavin 'George' Kester, a mathematical genius and Italian pioneer.

    • L

  • George Labram, De Beers Engineer who designed and built Long Cecil.
  • Richard Liversidge, ornithologist and museum director.

    • M

  • Gail Nkoane Mabalane, actress, model and singer
  • Phakamile Mabija, anti-apartheid activist.
  • Adolph Malan, better known as Sailor Malan, famed World War II RAF fighter pilot and later leading member of the anti-Apartheid Torch Commando and Springbok Legion in South Africa.
  • Brian Marajh, Bishop of George.
  • Manie Maritz, Boer general.
  • Z.K. Matthews, President of the African National Congress, spent his youth in Kimberley.
  • Sarah Gertrude Millin, author, spent her formative years, 1888–1912, in Kimberley and the nearby Waldeck's Plant.
  • Harold Arthur Morris, Freeman of Kimberley.
  • Karen Muir, Olympic medalist (swimming).

    • N

  • Gideon "Mgibe" Nxumalo - Jazz pianist, arranger, composer.

    • O

  • Ernest Oppenheimer
  • Harry Oppenheimer

    • P

  • Sol Plaatje
  • Dipuo Peters, second Premier of the Northern Cape Province.
  • Frank Templeton Prince, poet.

    • R

  • Cecil Rhodes
  • J.B. Robinson
  • Dr Donald Ross, cardiac surgeon
  • Bevil Rudd, Olympic medalist (athletics).
  • Charles Rudd

    • S

  • A.H.M. Scholtz, author.
  • Olive Schreiner, author, who lived in Kimberley 1894-1897.
  • Robert Sobukwe, founder of the Pan Africanist Congress.
  • Richard Southey (colonial administrator)
  • Henrietta Stockdale
  • Lilian Skirving, Voice teacher, died 1978

    • T

  • Jimmy Tau, football player and Kaizer Chiefs captain
  • William Timlin, artist and architect, responsible for many notable Kimberley buildings.
  • Zulu theko,also mined in kimberly

    • V

    Christie v Staden, baritone, grew up in Kimberley

    W

  • Charles Warren
  • Maria Wilman

    • References

    People of Kimberley Wikipedia
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