In the article below, Tertius De Wet, Jef L. Teugels, and Pieta Van Deventer trace seven church bells back to the C. Voss & Sohn foundry in Stettin, now Szczecin in Poland. All seven still hang in Lutheran and Dutch Reformed churches in South Africa's Eden district. Most arrived through the Berliner Missionsgesellschaft, the German missionary
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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
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Architect Dr JM Gerald Gordon designed and built this house in 1968 and lived here until his death in 2016. The house is suspended on the mountain, which forms the rear wall. A stone staircase is cut into the cliff face, maintaining and integrating the natural habitat. In this unique house and many others he designed on Linksfield Ridge, Gerald blends site and structure, and demonstrates that cost need not limit vision and boldness.