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Pre-colonial Heritage

  • The Melville Koppies Smelter Comes to Museum Africa
  • Kgosi Kgaswane and the Bakwena ba Modimosana ba Mmatau of the Tswana People
  • The Ancestors of the Tswana - Farmers Building Stone-Walled Villages
  • The Pioneers: Hunter-Gatherer Communities of the Magaliesberg Region
  • Looking back at the opening of Mapungubwe National Park
  • Revil Mason’s Melville Koppies
  • The Lovely Lonehill Koppie
  • A Lone Hill of National Importance
  • The Significance of Northcliff Hill

From our Archive

  • The fate of one Dutch noble line in the Cape Colony 
  • Inside Village Walk Sandton
  • Kathy Munro visits one of the top libraries in the world!
  • The Great Observatories of the Magaliesberg
  • Dormant Graaff-Reinet Museum Photographic Collection sees the light - Roe & Son studio images of the local Black community
  • Oblowitz's Bioscope and the Adelphi Cinema: Film in Hermanus: 1906-1981
  • Once in a lifetime trip inside majestic Cape mansion
  • Operators of “Mirrors with Memory” South African Photographers (1846 to 1915)
  • Africana map collection resurfaces after half a century
  • My trip through Africa in the early 1970s
  • The Fall of Pretoria, June 1900
  • A short history of Forest Hall Plettenberg Bay
  • Finding the missing link in the Gold Fields Collection
  • The Grave Story of Rietfontein (Sizwe) Hospital
  • Wonder Theatre for the Miracle City - Opening Programme Find

From the Directory

  • Peter Glendinning
  • Mpumalanga Heritage
  • Johannesburg Urban Forest Alliance (JUFA)
  • Strandlopers
  • Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa (VASSA)
  • Pinelands History
  • Kate Otten Architects
  • Northern Cape Provincial Heritage Authority
  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
  • Friends of the General Smuts Foundation
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