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Mining History
Sending Radio Signals through Rock
An early South African Philaphotographologist - Frederick William Willis
Knysna Gold - How it all started
Coal mining and the Anglo Boer War 1899-1902
The Death of James Christie Grant
More gold comes from the southern half of Western Australia than from South Africa
The Richest Goldfield in the World turns 135
New Lease of Life for Giant Mining Stamp from 1886
William English - From Trapper Boy to Toff
The Epic March of 7 000 Zulu Workers
Cape Peninsular - Manganese Hikes and Mines
Diamond Smugglers' Aircraft on a Deserted Beach - Unravelling the story around discarded crime scene photographs
Alluvial Diamond Digging at Holpan
Frans Beleni – underground man
The first re-discovery of gold in the Transvaal
Kenneth Birch and his appreciation of the Witwatersrand Mining landscape
A short sharp history of the Marikana Railway Station, est. 1910
Racing in the shadows of mine dumps: Black African cycle sport on South Africa's gold mines in the apartheid era
The Gold Rushes of the Victorian Era
The search for gold in the Free State
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Enigmatic Johannesburg-based Female Photographer, Jane Plotz
This is the story of how and why I became the author of "Die Jeppe Story" by Herbert A. Peschel
Finding the earliest known photographs of Prince Albert in a Johannesburg Charity Shop
The Red Ox of Riebeek Kasteel
That secret Johannesburg canal and stream
Arthur Edward Green - Soldier, hunter, engineer, traveller & amateur photographer
The Naming of Johannesburg
The History of Jacaranda Trees in Pretoria
A Short History of the Battles of Silkaatsnek
Origins of Emmarentia Dam
Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Pondoland, South Africa (Part 2)
The History of Witkoppen Clinic
A short history of one of the oldest homes in Bathurst
The first printed map of South Africa - The Martin Waldseemüller map
Exceptional collection of Africana goes on auction
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Chris Taylor Tour Guide
City of Johannesburg Directorate Arts Culture and Heritage
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