On Heritage Day 2026, the Iron Age furnace that Revil Mason excavated on Melville Koppies in 1963 went on permanent display at Museum Africa in Newtown, rebuilt in augmented reality by the University of Johannesburg's Metaverse Research Unit. Aubrey Moloto, a Koppies volunteer, committee member and founder of Snaps On Seventh, the company behind the
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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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The first Reform synagogue in South Africa, Temple Israel opened in 1936 under the leadership of Rabbi M.C. Weiler. An Art Deco temple designed by architects Kallenbach, Kennedy & Furner, the building also houses the archives of Progressive Judaism. Equality between man and women was promoted, and in 1949 the sisterhood at Temple Israel founded the M.C.