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3 unusual facts about Barkly West


Barkly West

The Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements, upstream along the Vaal River between Barkly West and Kimberley, with evidence of the Dwyka glaciation some 300 million years ago.

Canteen Kopje is the site of early diamond diggings which also exposed a major archaeological occurrence of stratified Acheulean facies, subject to a current collaborative research venture by the University of Southampton, the University of the Witwatersrand and the McGregor Museum in Kimberley.

Z.K. Matthews (1901 - May 1968), prominent black academic who became a president of the African National Congress and assisted in the drafting of the Freedom Charter, was born at Winters Rush outside Barkly West.


St Mary's, Barkly West

Within a month, “Church of England Services” were being advertised and held at Pniel, “in the new church tent”; in the Music Hall at Klipdrift (afterwards called Barkly West); and also at Good Hope.


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