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Luyt Family

  • The Silver Tea Service - A memoir dipped in mystery

From our Archive

  • Unpacking the complexity behind the decision to demolish the Anton Van Wouw House
  • A stroll through the Heidelberg Kloof cemetery
  • The Indian War Memorial: National Memory and Selective Forgetting
  • Madoda Tshabalala – the taxi driver we love to hate
  • A remarkable set of 33 postcards of Johannesburg circa 1904-08
  • History of the Old and New Grabouw Passes
  • The Kodak Girl - South African Film Wallets (1910s to 1960s)
  • South African “Cartomania” - a photographic phenomenon
  • Deep concern for Parktown's oldest surviving house
  • The Architectural and Historical Significance of the Markhams Building
  • Mandela’s Belongings: Balancing Law, Family and National Memory
  • The Birth of the Market Theatre
  • Johannesburg celebrates its 130th birthday!
  • A Rare View of Cape Town: The 1818 Choris Lithograph
  • The reinterment of the remains of the first (and last) Consul General of the Ottoman Empire posted to South Africa

From the Directory

  • Friends of Horwoods Farm
  • Gabriel Fagan Architects
  • WIEW Architects
  • Cannon Association of South Africa (CAOSA)
  • Charles Thomas - Antique Furniture Restorers
  • Christison Rare Books
  • Cape Institute for Architecture
  • The Workplace Agency
  • Drakenstein Heritage Foundation (DHF)
  • Mayat Hart Architecture
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