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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In 1980 Eduard Lippert established a forest, known as the Sachsenwald, on part of the farm Braamfontein. Part of this was given to the people of Johannesburg in 1904 for the specific use as a public park and named Herman Eckstein Park after a leading mining pioneer. In 1906 the City Council built a lake on this section, which was marshland.