Today in Kimberley's History
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13 October 1867 marks the first recorded discovery of diamonds in the colonial period of South Africa, with the very first becoming known as the Eureka diamond. Erasmus Jacobs, a 15-year-old farmer's son, found Africa's first authenticated diamond near the Orange River outside present-day Hopetown. You can read more about the heyday of diamond mining here.
The first newspaper, The Diamond Field, published at Barkly West, 1870
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