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Pietermaritzburg

  • 99 Years of the Ultimate Human Race: A Journey through Comrades History
  • Fort Napier 1843 - 2023 - One of the longest lasting and most peaceful military structures in South Africa
  • The Weeping Cross from Delville Wood
  • Archival Forgery and the Making of 'Zulu Dawn'
  • South Africa’s Three Photographers named Kisch (1863 – 1902)
  • Old clock returns home (in 1978) after 80 years
  • Restoring Pietermaritzburg's Old Ireland Building in the late 1970s
  • Kirti Menon and Gandhi’s legacy
  • Rousing Interest among the Young
  • Using the latest technology to digitise maps and posters at the Kwazulu-Natal Museum
  • Old Images of South Africa's Town Halls
  • What are the Oldest Towns in South Africa?
  • The Famous Foundation Stone without its Building

From our Archive

  • Ancestors On the Wall - Early South African Wall-Mounted Photographic Portraits
  • An unusual little book revealing Johannesburg in 1949
  • Melville Koppies bags heritage award
  • Joburg's oldest surviving bank building is coming back to life!
  • Unacclaimed South African Railway Photographers (1894 -1940)
  • Knysna Gold - How it all started
  • One day back in '63 at Liliesleaf
  • Clara Goad - The Story Behind One of the Earliest Graves in Braamfontein Cemetery
  • South Africa is an ideal destination for heritage railway tourism
  • Surveying the buildings of Paarl (in 1980)
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • Home Straight for Massive ANC Archives Digitization Project
  • More than a century ago: “Toen en Nu” (Then and Now) - A poem by Ompie
  • New Year’s Eve murder in Potchefstroom
  • 19th Century lettering on buildings

From the Directory

  • Historical Association of South Africa (HASA)
  • Simon Green - Anglo-Boer War Expert
  • Kalk Bay Historical Association
  • Ancestors Research South Africa
  • Kensington Heritage Trust
  • Eastern Cape Institute of Architects (ECIA)
  • Gauteng Institute for Architecture (GIfA) Heritage Committee
  • South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH)
  • Makana Residents' Association
  • Francois Johannes Cleophas - Sport Historian
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  • Limited edition set of six historic maps
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