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Modderfontein

  • Modderfontein's Grand Mansion
  • William English - From Trapper Boy to Toff
  • The Bird Calendar 1940-2020 - A short history, including a question and a real-life mystery
  • 16 300 books... and counting
  • First Heritage Plaques Unveiled in Modderfontein
  • Unanswered Questions 120 Years after the Great Braamfontein Dynamite Explosion
  • From the Alps to the Highveld
  • The House that Dynamite Built

From our Archive

  • Blue Plaque celebrates Freemasons Hall, Parktown
  • Museum Africa: An internationally renowned Africana collection at risk
  • Remarkable photographs of a 1970s trip through South West Africa
  • Three Books on the Black Death
  • South Africa’s Three Photographers named Kisch (1863 – 1902)
  • A Boer War Novelty
  • The hero who asked for a VC... and got it!
  • Forgotten Railway Sidings of the South Peninsula
  • The system has failed to achieve its purpose
  • The Railway that put the World on Track
  • Abdul Rahim Munshi - Possibly South Africa’s First Recorded Studio Photographer of Colour
  • The Colosseum - From a Cinema Fantasy of the Thirties to Modern apartment living in Johannesburg
  • Old Images of South Africa's Town Halls
  • The first re-discovery of gold in the Transvaal
  • My trip through Africa in the early 1970s

From the Directory

  • Association for Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA)
  • The New Titanic Museum SA
  • Simon Green - Anglo-Boer War Expert
  • Association of Professional Heritage Practitioners (APHP)
  • Greater Vredehoek Heritage Action Group
  • David Manning Stained Glass
  • Osmond Lange Architects
  • Heidelberg Heritage Association
  • Eugene Barnard - Indwe Researcher
  • Port Alfred Ratepayers Association (PARRA)
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