On the 14th of April this year, I attended the Repatriation Handover Ceremony at the Iziko South African Museum. The purpose of the ceremony was to hand over the last Zimbabwe Bird, along with ancestral remains, to the people of Zimbabwe. Three of the Zimbabwe Birds, photographed around 1891 (Wikipedia) This return was prompted by an instruction
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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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This road was named after Major General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope, Laird of Niddrie (Scotland), and veteran of many Imperial campaigns. He was killed in action at Magersfontein on 16 December 1899 commanding the Highland Brigade which included his own regiment, the Black Watch.