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Wits University

  • Student in Trouble - Protesting against Apartheid in the 1950s
  • Obituary for Clive Michael Chipkin
  • Much More than a Mafia: Mavericks, Mentors, and Medical Maestros. The considerable contribution of St John’s College to Medicine
  • Radar at Wits: South Africa’s development of radar within three months in World War II
  • Wits has not destroyed the old showground of Milner Park
  • Old, New and Newest in Braamfontein
  • Wits University Gold Medal awarded to Herbert Prins
  • The Poster Age, 1968-1972 - Plastering the Campus red and blue and black
  • Phillip Tobias, the mensch
  • 16 300 books... and counting
  • Origins and Architecture of the William Cullen Library at Wits
  • The Nunnery at Wits - Created in a Weekend and Still Going Strong

From our Archive

  • The Most Important Polish-Founded Monument in South Africa
  • Newtown Cooling Towers - Preserve or Demolish?
  • Johannesburg at 140: A City Still Becoming
  • A Dutch Accolade from a Field Ambulance volunteer praising a Boer war officer
  • Looking back at the Roeland Street Prison
  • Who was the Roger behind the Jolly Roger?
  • The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
  • Water as Heritage: When Rivers become Mirrors of our Constitutional Care
  • The Ponte Saga
  • The Face of the Rand Club Bids Farewell (for now)
  • Red Beret, Red Cross, Red Star - The remarkable story of Lippy Kessel
  • If only statues could speak: the four Boer statues Kitchener ‘stole’
  • The World Famous Engineer buried in Simon's Town
  • Johannesburg Stock Exchange Buildings over the Decades
  • Remember the 26th of September: The Battle of Sandfontein

From the Directory

  • Elegant Places
  • Simon Green - Anglo-Boer War Expert
  • Eugene Barnard - Indwe Researcher
  • Constantia Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association
  • South African Cannon Association (SACA)
  • Association for Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA)
  • ICOMOS SA
  • Observatory Civic Association (OCA)
  • PGS Heritage
  • Ursula Rigby Architect & Professional Heritage Practitioner
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  • Volksrust (Llanwarne/Langwane) - A Transvaal Border Town Through the Eyes of a Deltiologist
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