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Monuments

  • The Unbuilt Kimberley Nymphaeum
  • Traces of the Basuto Wars
  • New mosaic marks the site where the Bezuidenhout Valley War Memorial once stood
  • Some West Coast Memorials and Monuments
  • Remembering the First Trans-Africa Flight
  • If only statues could speak: the four Boer statues Kitchener ‘stole’
  • Some thoughts on Keiskammahoek
  • Bez Valley War Memorial to be moved
  • The story behind Johannesburg's oldest War Memorial
  • The story behind the South African Scottish Memorial
  • Sappersrus and the War Memorial to the Sappers
  • Carl von Brandis - The Father of Johannesburg
  • Sandton's Forgotten Monument
  • Air Crash Monument a Must
  • Editing Our Past
  • The Scottish Horse Memorial - The story behind one of Johannesburg's earliest war memorials
  • The Story Behind the Oudstryders Monument
  • The Most Important Polish-Founded Monument in South Africa
  • The Story Behind the Monument to Petrus Molefe

From our Archive

  • Dolobran mansion sits smugly among Baker's Joburg icons
  • The Vergelegen Story Part One - Splendid Beginnings and a Period of Decline
  • The Wagner-Hoffa Legacy: A Tale of Two Scientific Pioneers from Richmond
  • The history of the oldest continually lived in house North of the Orange River
  • Some West Coast Memorials and Monuments
  • Kate’s Legacy - Seeking the family of an abandoned box of beautiful old photographs
  • The Blaauwkrantz Bridge Disaster
  • Rickshaws of early Johannesburg
  • The Famous Hanging Building at 78 Fox Street
  • The fate of one Dutch noble line in the Cape Colony 
  • The Remarkable Chinese Paired Swords at Ditsong
  • Heroic Efforts to Save the Kimberley City Hall
  • Disappeared June 16 victim Mbuyisa Makhubu to be honoured
  • A short history of Forest Hall Plettenberg Bay
  • Gone but not Forgotten - Johannesburg's oldest Mosque

From the Directory

  • South African Heritage Resource Agency (SAHRA)
  • Cindy Postlethwayt Heritage Consultant
  • Cape Town Family History Society
  • Muizenberg - Then and Now
  • Cape Town Heritage Foundation (CTHF)
  • Totem Media
  • Pinelands History
  • Amafa / Heritage KwaZulu Natal
  • Outeniqua Historical Society
  • Tulbagh Valley Heritage Foundation
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