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
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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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On 4 February 1920, Sir Pierre van Ryneveld and Sir Quintin Brand set out from London to South Africa to pioneer the first trans-Africa flight. The Mediterranean crossing took 11 hours and 40 minutes in a Vickers Vimy (the Silver Queen). Their first forced landing was in Wadi Halfa in present-day Sudan. The plane was unusable and a second Vimy (the Silver Queen II) was delivered 11 days later. The duo took off from Cairo.