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Heritage Issues

  • Somerset West Loses an Iconic Heritage Building - The demolition of Blue Waters and the questions it leaves behind
  • Old National Monument Badges and Plaques Under Threat
  • Huntington Hall destroyed by fire
  • Liliesleaf - Making a case for survival
  • The mosaic that is Jeppestown 
  • The Management and Conservation of Heritage Objects housed in State Departments or Supported bodies
  • Why Do Municipalities Not Uphold Their By-Laws - A Case Study from Greater Oudtshoorn
  • Why Existing Heritage Legislation Is Ineffective - An Issue of a Total Lack of Effective Enforcement & Structure
  • Leadership and the role SAHRA can play to facilitate connectivity with and between museums
  • Planners, Protectors and Predators: Public Trust and the tension between Heritage and Planning laws
  • Four strategies to deal with colonial buildings
  • The system has failed to achieve its purpose

From our Archive

  • Brian McKechnie: heritage, passion and cars
  • A Brief History of Knysna from 1770 to 1890
  • Looking back at Johannesburg's Civic Spine controversy
  • Lest We Forget - The case for the documentation of missionary education heritage in South Africa
  • The Amnesia on the Commemoration of African Women in the South African War 
  • Visiting the oldest extant cemetery in South Africa
  • Our Huguenot Heritage
  • A Short History of the Robben Island Garrison Church
  • The Preservation of Diagonal Street
  • Unicorns in the Stormberg - New light on an old mystery
  • The Heritage Portal in Numbers (December 2020)
  • Commemorating Sir Herbert Baker's last building in South Africa
  • The McHardy Family of Cullinan
  • Pritchard Street thrives once again!
  • Cleaning the Joburg Cenotaph - Before, During and After

From the Directory

  • Rietondale Homeowners and Residents Association (RHOARA)
  • Booklovers Paradise
  • Lareman Architects
  • Vidamemoria Heritage Consultants
  • Boksburg and East Rand Historical Association
  • Erica Davison THL
  • Rod Kruger - Gold Mining Talks and Tours
  • Saxonwold and Parkwood Residents Association (SAPRA)
  • James Findlay Collectable Books & Antique Maps
  • Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA)
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  • Volksrust (Llanwarne/Langwane) - A Transvaal Border Town Through the Eyes of a Deltiologist
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