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  • The Saga of the planned major SAR & H Museum that never was
  • Henry Fancourt White - Pass-builder Remembered by Golfers
  • Charles Cornwallis Michell - The Father of Civil Engineering in South Africa
  • Iconic Kaaimans River Railway Bridge Declared a Provincial Heritage Site
  • Blockhouses of the South African War
  • The Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe - Something to chew on
  • Streaks of Rust Across the Veld - The Demise of the Branch Lines
  • What are the Oldest Towns in South Africa?

From our Archive

  • History of the SAR&H Magazine from 1905 to 1930
  • Behind the Lens - 50 plus German-born photographers active in South Africa between 1846 and 1915
  • Government Avenue Cape Town - South Africa's oldest pedestrian thoroughfare
  • She took no prisoners and let no grass grow beneath her feet - Franco Frescura pays tribute to Helen Aron
  • Johannesburg's First Lift
  • Pilgrim's Rust - Tracing the Tramway
  • A horologist, but much more
  • The 1954 SAA Comet Disaster
  • Photographs of the Kruger Park that haven't been seen for half a century
  • The Rediscovery of Herbert Baker’s Lost Model
  • Hard Rock Mining in South Africa - The Cornish Connection
  • A Brief History of Parkview
  • Southern Africa from above: Aerial Photography – A historical overview
  • The McHardy Family of Cullinan
  • The Bane(s) of South African Historians

From the Directory

  • Eugene Barnard - Indwe Researcher
  • Bruce Eitzen - New World Associates Landscape Architects
  • Boksburg and East Rand Historical Association
  • Lennie Gouws - Researcher and Author
  • Outeniqua Historical Society
  • Hermanus History Society
  • Friends of the Rail (FOTR)
  • The Heritage Foundation (Die Erfenisstigting)
  • Morbid Musings - Marie-Louise Rouget
  • Jenna Mervis - Author and Museum Storyteller
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