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Engineering History

  • William Brounger - Forward into the Interior
  • William Brounger and the Cape Railways
  • Hermann Schutte - Designer of South Africa's First Lighthouse
  • Louis Michel Thibault - Ex-Mercenary whose Heritage Enriched the Cape
  • James Cameron - Second City Engineer of Cape Town
  • John Hamilton Wicksteed - The competent young engineer who came to a sad end
  • James Bisset - Bringing Mass Transport to the Suburbs
  • George Pauling - Leading railway contractor in the development of Southern Africa
  • Thomas Stewart - First South African Consulting Engineer
  • John Gamble - Maths Prodigy who Preferred Engineering
  • Sir John Coode - International Harbour Master
  • Adam De Smidt - Gentlemanly Engineer in a tough environment
  • John Frederick Bourne - Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy
  • Patrick Fletcher - Versatile Pioneer
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • John Scott Tucker - Ineffective Official who Abolished his own Post
  • Great Mechanical Engineers of the South African Railways & Harbours (Part 2)
  • Great Mechanical Engineers of the South African Railways & Harbours (Part 1)
  • George Pilkington - The Elderly Gentleman Who Kept up The Good Work
  • Thomas Charles John Bain - One of South Africa's greatest engineers

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From our Archive

  • Streaks of Rust Across the Veld - The Demise of the Branch Lines
  • South Africa's First Multiracial Restaurant during Apartheid
  • Roodewal: Architectural Heritage and Intellectual History in the Lowveld
  • The Ancestors of the Tswana - Farmers Building Stone-Walled Villages
  • One photograph – Seven Afrikaans-speaking Rhodes Scholars at Oxford University (1939)
  • Remembering the 'Eiffel Tower of the Rand'
  • German connections and the overall significance of the Yeoville Water Tower
  • Documents saved from a rubbish dump reveal snippets of the life of Gerardus Bodde
  • 1950 Commemorative Booklet reveals wonderful photographs of Jan Smuts
  • Illegal advertising on Old Park Station - Has MTN missed an opportunity?
  • Locating the Victims of the 1922 Rand Revolt
  • Dr Willem Henri Jacobus Punt: South African Heritage Pioneer (26/04/1900 - 22/05/1981)
  • Finding the Original Witwatersrand Agricultural Show Grounds
  • Dolobran mansion sits smugly among Baker's Joburg icons
  • Houghton was nearly a Mining Township

From the Directory

  • Rod Kruger - Gold Mining Talks and Tours
  • Parkhurst Residents' and Business Owners' Association (PRABOA)
  • Muckleneuk Lukasrand Property Owners and Residents Association (MLPORA)
  • WIEW Architects
  • PGS Heritage
  • Middelburg Karoo Tourism
  • Henry Paine Architects
  • Bronzing Brilliance
  • Craig McClenaghan Architecture
  • Collectors Treasury
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