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Heritage Monitoring Project

  • A nation in 66 places: the national heritage sites of South Africa
  • Endangered Heritage Sites 2017 - Longlist Announced
  • Endangered Heritage Sites Update - April 2017
  • Our vanishing heritage – South Africa’s top ten endangered sites 2016
  • Changes to SA's tentative world heritage list - Government and stakeholders respond
  • SA removes sites from the UNESCO world heritage tentative list

From our Archive

  • The Battle to Save the Colosseum Theatre
  • Zonderwater - Almost certainly the Largest Allied POW Camp in the World
  • Da Gama Park - A little known park with some of the best views of Johannesburg
  • A Brief History of Parkview
  • Nongoloza: King of the Ninevites
  • The vanished world of Mr Man Tong and his shop at 25 Stanley Avenue, Richmond
  • Tracey’s Folly still stands proud
  • Principles and Parallels in South African Water and Heritage Protections - Custodianship, the Constitution, and the Limits of Ownership
  • Who was the Douglas in Douglasdale?
  • Rand Club - A Grand Past with an Uncertain Future
  • Forbidden Images (1960s to 1980s) - Illegal photographs captured by young men conscripted into the South African Military
  • A tribute to Werner Kirchhoff - Surveyor of distinction and an early pioneer of South African satellite geodesy
  • A short history of Mamre's Moravian Mission Station
  • The search for Enoch Sontonga
  • Springs - Art Deco's Love Child

From the Directory

  • Williams Cultural Management (WCM)
  • South African Cannon Association (SACA)
  • The South African Antique, Art & Design Association (SAADA)
  • Upper Houghton Residents Association (UHRA)
  • South African Naval Heritage Trust (NHT)
  • Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • African Conservation Trust (ACT)
  • Andy Selfe - Millwright
  • Muckleneuk Lukasrand Property Owners and Residents Association (MLPORA)
  • Joint Plans Committee East
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