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Articles

In the article below, journalist Lucille Davie profiles architect Peter Rich, whose decade of research into Ndebele place-making shaped a career of museums, community centres and homes across Africa and beyond. From the Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre to the Alexandra Heritage Centre, she traces how his buildings grow out of the communities they

Book Reviews

Johannesburg from the Riverbanks: Navigating the Jukskei is an ambitious and timely contribution to Johannesburg studies. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by twenty-six contributors, the volume emerged largely from the 2023 Riparian Urbanism project and seeks to reposition the Jukskei River

Blue Plaques

April 2019 marks the reconstruction of the historic buildings demolished in 2008 without permission and in contravention of the Provisional Declaration of the site by the Provincial Heritage Resources Authority Gauteng.