MINES Kimberley is the capital of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa On 2 September 1882, Kimberley became the

the first town in the southern hemisphere to install electric street lighting.[25] Research by historian Steve Lunderstedt in 2005 confirmed that the mine was the biggest handexcavated hole in the world, slightly larger than the Big Hole in Kimberley, South Africa. The Big Hole is the principal feature of a May 2004 submission which placed "Kimberley Mines and associated early industries" on UNESCO's World Heritage Tentative Lists