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Military Heritage

  • History of the Ditsong National Museum of Military History
  • Fort Napier 1843 - 2023 - One of the longest lasting and most peaceful military structures in South Africa
  • Anglo-Boer War sketches, Magic Lanterns and the Lanternist
  • Finding Job Maseko - It is not Masego, it is Maseko
  • Gordons Bay Coastal Defence Battery 1943
  • Frescura releases lists to researchers
  • Portrait of a Springbok - Lest we forget
  • The Missing Hours at Isandlwana
  • Searching for the Zulu Mass Graves at Kambula
  • A Short History of East Fort Pretoria
  • Fort Pine - Place of refuge after the battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift
  • The South African baboon that became a war hero
  • The Remarkable Chinese Paired Swords at Ditsong
  • Model of 'U-96' donated to the Ditsong National Museum of Military History
  • Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Epilogue)
  • Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Part 3)
  • Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Part 2)
  • Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Part 1)
  • Death by drowning, the tragedy of the SS Mendi
  • Cape Town’s rich military heritage celebrated

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From our Archive

  • New publication highlights Africa’s remarkable geology
  • One of the Cape’s most remarkable early mining ventures
  • Surveying the Confidence Reef Mine
  • The Missionary Beginnings of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
  • A Short History of the Mulberry Tree
  • Johannesburg Stock Exchange Buildings over the Decades
  • The 1913 Land Act
  • What remains of the Jameson Raid
  • Houghton, Orange Grove, Killarney, Mayfair and Greenside get blue plaques!
  • Father Eustace St Clair Hill and the Bambatha Rebellion 1906
  • Finding the Original Witwatersrand Agricultural Show Grounds
  • Mining Headgears - Pure Functionality Ruling over Beauty
  • Rand Club - A Grand Past with an Uncertain Future
  • Schroder House - The oldest documented dwelling in South Africa
  • Step into Victorian Joburg

From the Directory

  • Panners Kingswood Village Association (PKVA)
  • Yeoville and Bellevue Ratepayers Association
  • Joint Plans Committee West
  • Emmett Architects
  • Association for Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA)
  • Van Biljon Barnardo Architects
  • Roger Stewart Antiquarian
  • Kensington Heritage Trust
  • Heritage Potchefstroom Erfenis
  • FutureHistories
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