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Slave Sales and Cape Town's Slave Tree Memorial
That famous 21st Birthday broadcast from Cape Town... or was it?
Herbert Baker honoured in Muizenberg
Blue Plaque celebrates Jewish contribution to Muizenberg
Recalcitrant City: Cape Town, permission, procrastination and smokescreens
Origins of the book 'District Six - Memories, Thoughts and Images'
Mostertshoek - One of South Africa's worst rail accidents
Cape Peninsular - Manganese Hikes and Mines
The Early Beginnings of Knysna's First Farm
Meandering along the Sea Point Promenade
History of the Old and New Grabouw Passes
Dark tourism disaster and the terrible Laingsburg flood of 1981
Mostert's Mill - The Sole Survivor
The Author and the Archaeologist - Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan
Arderne Gardens - Home to the largest collection of Champion Trees in South Africa
The Historical Muizenberg / St. James Walk
Hermanus History and Powered Flight
Why Do Municipalities Not Uphold Their By-Laws - A Case Study from Greater Oudtshoorn
Health Care workers who died from Spanish Flu
Farewell to one of South Africa's great architects
Visiting the historic St Paul’s Anglican Church and Graveyard
Some West Coast Memorials and Monuments
Tributes pour in for Marian Laserson
Village Life - The great magazine that was
One of the earliest and most important items of South African Railway History goes on sale
Jan Christian Smuts 1870 - 1950
The World Famous Engineer buried in Simon's Town
Billy Monk was a Loaded Gun - A Treasure Trove of Photographs of Cape Town in the 1960s
The Thesen Homes of Knysna
All Blacks in Hermanus Seventy Years Ago
Some Reminisces of Malmesbury
Unpacking the history behind this 1919 Ravenscroft photograph
Hermanus and HRH Princess Alice
A Novelist in Hermanus
Berg River Water Supply to the West Coast - The Importance of Jantjiesfontein
Rising from the Ashes - The 1926 Restoration of Groot Constantia
Oblowitz's Bioscope and the Adelphi Cinema: Film in Hermanus: 1906-1981
The Forgotten Biscuit King
SAHRA meets the Bo-Kaap
My Caving Story including the survey of the Cango Caves - Helen Berrisford
Visiting the Historic Simon’s Town Old Burying Ground
South Africa's forgotten bioscopes
Visiting the oldest extant cemetery in South Africa
Meet Lady Anne Barnard
Summer holidays, Sunshine, Swimwear, Suntan lotion and Sand buckets - South African Beach Photographers (1930s to 1960s)
William Henry Hewitt VC (1884-1966)
Markhams Building and the Cape Town Connection
Brunel's Big Idea and the South African Connection
The Balcony Building Hermanus - 1906-2018
Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Part 3)
Soap Houses of the Karoo
Surveying the buildings of Paarl (in 1980)
Some early Piquetberg farms illustrated by Johannes Cornelius Poortermans
Celebrating women in maritime archaeology!
The Red Ox of Riebeek Kasteel
The History and Restoration of Boschendal
Memorial honours Cape slaves
Where to from here... 20 Years of the National Heritage Resources Act
The Old Synagogue in the Gardens
Commemorating Sir Herbert Baker's last building in South Africa
An elegant lady photographed - Hildagonda Johanna Duckitt (1839 to 1905)
When a Provincial Heritage Site is so desecrated one must question how they should be protected
Five Sneaky Blue Plaques
Stony Point Whaling Station - 100 Years Later
George Rex - Remarkable but not Royal
Mariendahl Brewery - One of South Africa's finest industrial monuments
Response to “Heritage house owners should be compensated by a property tax cut”
Remembering Old Claremont Cape Town
JC Munro - Pretoria's longest serving photographer during the turn of the 20th century
Anglo-Zulu War 1879 - Some personalities photographed
Schroder House - The oldest documented dwelling in South Africa
A walking tour of historic Durbanville
An Elephant Whisperer in Hermanus? The Story of Harold Langford-Browne
Cape Town Photographs by TP and TD Ravenscroft
A short history of one the Cape's earliest freehold farms
‘Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa’: Logan of Matjiesfontein
One of the Cape’s most remarkable early mining ventures
The Royal Navy in Hermanus in 1961
Once in a lifetime trip inside majestic Cape mansion
Cape Town’s rich military heritage celebrated
Restoration of the Old Cape Archives
Hout Bay Heritage - Huge potential destroyed by neglect
A short history of Forest Hall Plettenberg Bay
A short history of the oldest graves in Plettenberg Bay
Berdine Luyt's 'John' - A wartime romance?
A short history of Mamre's Moravian Mission Station
Government Avenue Cape Town - South Africa's oldest pedestrian thoroughfare
Old Malmesbury Mission Church Complex - A question of sustainability
Onze Molen - Durbanville's link with the past
A short history of Simon's Town's famous Martello Tower
A critical look at Cape Town's developer-friendly policies
In the wreck of the Haerlem
The Origins of the Chavonnes Battery
The conservation of The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront as an historic precinct
Lion Battery - The Russians and the Noon Gun
Robben Island Garrison Church - Poor maintenance aggravates the problem
Robben Island Garrison Church - Costly restoration goes horribly wrong
Robben Island Garrison Church - The 2004 Restoration
A Short History of the Robben Island Garrison Church
A Short History of one of the oldest houses in South Africa
Sir William Hoy (1868-1930) - His life beyond Hermanus
Commemorating the first public library in South Africa
South African Radar in the Overstrand in World War II
Old Town House Greenmarket Square
Refurbishing the Muizenberg Carnegie Library and Post Office
Discovery of a cannonball that was fired during the Battle of Muizenberg (1795)
A Sandstone Architect of Oudtshoorn
A Short History of the Company's Garden, Cape Town
Millbank - The Closest Historic Mill to Johannesburg
Mills of the Cederberg
The Historic Forester's Cottage Knysna
Looking back at the Roeland Street Prison
Finding the earliest known photographs of Prince Albert in a Johannesburg Charity Shop
Tiger Brands Heritage in Danger
Roaming the Western Cape Rails
South Africa's Oldest Windmill
Walking Tour of Historic Paarl
From the ashes of South Africa's worst earthquake rise the old buildings of Tulbagh
Cape Colony Convict Stations and Road Construction Crews
Controversy and Debate Continues - Herbert Prins gives his thoughts on the Martin Melck Warehouse Saga
Montagu Pass - The Final Link
The Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe - Something to chew on
The Recovery of an Element of Cape Town’s Lost Transportation Heritage
Is the Claim of 'Oldest School in South Africa' Legitimate?
Workmen Discover Hidden Steps and Centuries Old Post Office Stones in 1906
A Brief History of Knysna from 1770 to 1890
History is not for the Sensitive - HASA comments on the Rhodes Statue Saga
Kathy Munro visits Vergelegen