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Western Cape
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A Brief History of Knysna from 1770 to 1890
A critical look at Cape Town's developer-friendly policies
A Novelist in Hermanus
A Sandstone Architect of Oudtshoorn
A short history of Forest Hall Plettenberg Bay
A short history of Mamre's Moravian Mission Station
A Short History of one of the oldest houses in South Africa
A short history of one the Cape's earliest freehold farms
A short history of Simon's Town's famous Martello Tower
A Short History of the Company's Garden, Cape Town
A short history of the oldest graves in Plettenberg Bay
A Short History of the Robben Island Garrison Church
A walking tour of historic Durbanville
All Blacks in Hermanus Seventy Years Ago
An elegant lady photographed - Hildagonda Johanna Duckitt (1839 to 1905)
An Elephant Whisperer in Hermanus? The Story of Harold Langford-Browne
Anglo-Zulu War 1879 - Some personalities photographed
Arderne Gardens - Home to the largest collection of Champion Trees in South Africa
Berdine Luyt's 'John' - A wartime romance?
Berg River Water Supply to the West Coast - The Importance of Jantjiesfontein
Billy Monk was a Loaded Gun - A Treasure Trove of Photographs of Cape Town in the 1960s
Blue Plaque celebrates Jewish contribution to Muizenberg
Brunel's Big Idea and the South African Connection
Cape Colony Convict Stations and Road Construction Crews
Cape Peninsular - Manganese Hikes and Mines
Cape Town Photographs by TP and TD Ravenscroft
Cape Town’s rich military heritage celebrated
Celebrating women in maritime archaeology!
Century old photographs reveal the story of James Gribble, Paarl based photographer
Charles Cornwallis Michell - The Father of Civil Engineering in South Africa
Commemorating Sir Herbert Baker's last building in South Africa
Commemorating the first public library in South Africa
Controversy and Debate Continues - Herbert Prins gives his thoughts on the Martin Melck Warehouse Saga
Dark tourism disaster and the terrible Laingsburg flood of 1981
Discovery of a cannonball that was fired during the Battle of Muizenberg (1795)
Farewell to one of South Africa's great architects
Finding the earliest known photographs of Prince Albert in a Johannesburg Charity Shop
Fire at Parliament: Statement from the Heritage Association of South Africa (HASA)
Five Sneaky Blue Plaques
Frescura releases lists to researchers
From the ashes of South Africa's worst earthquake rise the old buildings of Tulbagh
George Rex - Remarkable but not Royal
Government Avenue Cape Town - South Africa's oldest pedestrian thoroughfare
Health Care workers who died from Spanish Flu
Herbert Baker honoured in Muizenberg
Hermanus and HRH Princess Alice
Hermanus History and Powered Flight
History is not for the Sensitive - HASA comments on the Rhodes Statue Saga
History of the Old and New Grabouw Passes
Hout Bay Heritage - Huge potential destroyed by neglect
Iconic Kaaimans River Railway Bridge Declared a Provincial Heritage Site
In the wreck of the Haerlem
Is the Claim of 'Oldest School in South Africa' Legitimate?
Jan Christian Smuts 1870 - 1950
JC Munro - Pretoria's longest serving photographer during the turn of the 20th century
Kathy Munro visits Vergelegen
Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Part 3)
Lion Battery - The Russians and the Noon Gun
Looking back at the Roeland Street Prison
Malagas/Malgas and Joseph Barry
Mariendahl Brewery - One of South Africa's finest industrial monuments
Markhams Building and the Cape Town Connection
Meandering along the Sea Point Promenade
Meet Lady Anne Barnard
Memorial honours Cape slaves
Millbank - The Closest Historic Mill to Johannesburg
Mills of the Cederberg
Montagu Pass - The Final Link
Mostert's Mill - The Sole Survivor
Mostertshoek - One of South Africa's worst rail accidents
My Caving Story including the survey of the Cango Caves - Helen Berrisford
Oblowitz's Bioscope and the Adelphi Cinema: Film in Hermanus: 1906-1981
Old Malmesbury Mission Church Complex - A question of sustainability
Old Town House Greenmarket Square
Once in a lifetime trip inside majestic Cape mansion
One of the Cape’s most remarkable early mining ventures
One of the earliest and most important items of South African Railway History goes on sale
Onze Molen - Durbanville's link with the past
Origins of the book 'District Six - Memories, Thoughts and Images'
Recalcitrant City: Cape Town, permission, procrastination and smokescreens
Refurbishing the Muizenberg Carnegie Library and Post Office
Remembering Old Claremont Cape Town
Response to “Heritage house owners should be compensated by a property tax cut”
Restoration of the Old Cape Archives
Rising from the Ashes - The 1926 Restoration of Groot Constantia
Roaming the Western Cape Rails
Robben Island Garrison Church - Costly restoration goes horribly wrong
Robben Island Garrison Church - Poor maintenance aggravates the problem
Robben Island Garrison Church - The 2004 Restoration
SAHRA meets the Bo-Kaap
Schroder House - The oldest documented dwelling in South Africa
Sir William Hoy (1868-1930) - His life beyond Hermanus
Slave Sales and Cape Town's Slave Tree Memorial
Soap Houses of the Karoo
Some early Piquetberg farms illustrated by Johannes Cornelius Poortermans
Some Reminisces of Malmesbury
Some West Coast Memorials and Monuments
South Africa's forgotten bioscopes
South Africa's Oldest Windmill
South African Radar in the Overstrand in World War II
Stony Point Whaling Station - 100 Years Later
Summer holidays, Sunshine, Swimwear, Suntan lotion and Sand buckets - South African Beach Photographers (1930s to 1960s)
Surveying the buildings of Paarl (in 1980)
That famous 21st Birthday broadcast from Cape Town... or was it?
The Author and the Archaeologist - Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan
The Balcony Building Hermanus - 1906-2018
The conservation of The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront as an historic precinct
The Early Beginnings of Knysna's First Farm
The Forgotten Biscuit King
The Historic Forester's Cottage Knysna
The Historical Muizenberg / St. James Walk
The History and Restoration of Boschendal
The Nedbank Historical Collective - Exploring the oldest collective financial institution in South Africa
The Old Synagogue in the Gardens
The Origins of the Chavonnes Battery
The Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe - Something to chew on
The Place of Kasteelberg in Khoekhoe History
The Recovery of an Element of Cape Town’s Lost Transportation Heritage
The Red Ox of Riebeek Kasteel
The Royal Navy in Hermanus in 1961
The Thesen Homes of Knysna
The Unfinished Story of the Hardekraaltjie Cemetery
The World Famous Engineer buried in Simon's Town
Tiger Brands Heritage in Danger
Tributes pour in for Marian Laserson
Unpacking the history behind this 1919 Ravenscroft photograph
Uproar in the Cape - The Arrival of the Convict Ship Neptune in 1849
Village Life - The great magazine that was
Visiting the Historic Simon’s Town Old Burying Ground
Visiting the historic St Paul’s Anglican Church and Graveyard
Visiting the oldest extant cemetery in South Africa
Walking Tour of Historic Paarl
Was there an Italian POW Camp in Pringle Bay during World War II?
When a Provincial Heritage Site is so desecrated one must question how they should be protected
Where to from here... 20 Years of the National Heritage Resources Act
Why Do Municipalities Not Uphold Their By-Laws - A Case Study from Greater Oudtshoorn
William Cuthbert Holloway - The Soldier who Built a Splendid Mountain Road
William Henry Hewitt VC (1884-1966)
William Smith: Educator
Workmen Discover Hidden Steps and Centuries Old Post Office Stones in 1906
‘Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa’: Logan of Matjiesfontein