Today in Kimberley's History
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Opening of Beaconsfield Public School (now the Laerskool Dutoitspan)
The first government school in the newly planned town of Beaconsfield – founded in 1884 and comprising the former mining camps of Dutoitspan and Bultfontein – was the second-class Public Undenominational School (A second class school was basically a primary school, while a first class school was a secondary school.) This school was established on 17 July 1885 and took over from the church school that had been started in 1872. It would later become known as the Beaconsfield Public school and even later as the Laerskool Dutoitspan. |
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