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Commemorations

  • The traditional ‘two minutes silence in remembrance’ was first observed in Cape Town
  • When is Johannesburg's Birthday?

From our Archive

  • Over four thousand traditional Zulu artefacts digitised
  • The Execution of Christian Woite
  • Solving the riddle of the site of all the late 1938 to early 1940s burials in the Brixton Cemetery
  • Johannesburg in 1893
  • A tribute to Werner Kirchhoff - Surveyor of distinction and an early pioneer of South African satellite geodesy
  • Forbidden Images (1960s to 1980s) - Illegal photographs captured by young men conscripted into the South African Military
  • The fascinating story behind one of Sandton's oldest shops
  • A Novelist in Hermanus
  • Chunnel Vision - A long held dream
  • Bez Valley War Memorial to be moved
  • The Story Behind the Oudstryders Monument
  • Looking back at the opening of Mapungubwe National Park
  • Destroyed ERPM Mining Village - Some practical thoughts
  • The Melville Koppies Smelter Comes to Museum Africa
  • The Pyrites Panic - When one in three citizens left Johannesburg

From the Directory

  • Pretoria Institute for Architecture (PIA)
  • Shortalogy
  • Mpumalanga Institute of Architects (MPIA)
  • Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation
  • Roger Stewart Antiquarian
  • Africana Books & Collectibles
  • Totem Media
  • HP Architects & Heritage Architects
  • Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA)
  • NGT Infraco
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