On the morning of 16 June 1976, I was the casualty officer at Baragwanath Hospital who received the first victims of what would become known as the Soweto Uprising.For the 30th anniversary of the uprising, Ali Hlongwane, then curator of the Hector Pieterson Museum, commissioned me to provide an account of my experience, to be published in an anthology
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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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One of the oldest buildings in Johannesburg, this was originally a simple rectangle built in 1863 by Frederik Jacobus Bezuidenhout. A south wing with an attractive bay window was added in the 1890s, and a north wing in 1910. During the Anglo-Boer war, the British used the farmhouse as a base, and the grounds provided grazing to a remount camp with thousands of horses. The farmstead was declared a National Monument in 1995.