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William Martinson

  • Re-imagining the Planetarium as the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome
  • Tribute to Johannes (Johann) Jacobus Bruwer: 1954-2021

From our Archive

  • Helpmekaar and the Making of an Urban Afrikaner World
  • The Big Fiery Giant - The Story of the Beyer-Garratt Locomotive
  • MHIG breaks records on the Barberton Makhonjwa Geotrail
  • Enigmatic Johannesburg-based Female Photographer, Jane Plotz
  • Newtown Workers' Compound commemorates municipal workers
  • The History of Sizwe (formerly Rietfontein) Hospital
  • The traditional ‘two minutes silence in remembrance’ was first observed in Cape Town
  • Hunter and hunted photographed - Early South African hunting photographs (1860s to 1910)
  • Smoke and Mirrors - The Martini-Henry Rifle at Isandlwana
  • Surgeon in Trouble - Protesting for Biko and Woods
  • Massive Johannesburg CBD project finally moving ahead?
  • Exploring the Syringa Tree
  • The Heritage Portal in numbers (October 2019)
  • Busting Out - Transplanting the heart of Johannesburg in the 1960s
  • Rhodes Court Room, Lock-up and Post Office

From the Directory

  • Tsica Heritage Consultants
  • Free State Heritage Resources Authority (FSHRA)
  • Old Pretoria East Residents and Ratepayers Alliance (OPERRA)
  • Eastern Cape Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (ECPHRA)
  • Past Experiences
  • Heritage Western Cape (HWC)
  • Andre Vercueil Consulting Architects & Heritage Practitioner
  • Francois Johannes Cleophas - Sport Historian
  • Save our Berea
  • Strandlopers
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