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Bill Harding

  • Blue Waters: Could Cape Town’s New Heritage Strategy Have Saved It?
  • Somerset West Loses an Iconic Heritage Building - The demolition of Blue Waters and the questions it leaves behind
  • Water as Heritage: When Rivers become Mirrors of our Constitutional Care
  • Principles and Parallels in South African Water and Heritage Protections - Custodianship, the Constitution, and the Limits of Ownership

From our Archive

  • A Short History of Steel
  • Blue Plaque celebrates Freemasons Hall, Parktown
  • The Poswohl Synagogue - A Memorial to a Community that No Longer Exists
  • Louis Michel Thibault - Ex-Mercenary whose Heritage Enriched the Cape
  • Iconic Rotunda being vandalised
  • Photographs of Johannesburg in the late 1950s and early 1960s
  • Extraordinary Guide to South and East Africa on the eve of World War I
  • Dr. Beeching, Hero or Villain?
  • Uproar in the Cape - The Arrival of the Convict Ship Neptune in 1849
  • Michael Sutton is the reason that I chose to study Architecture
  • Smoke and Mirrors - The Martini-Henry Rifle at Isandlwana
  • Robben Island Garrison Church - The 2004 Restoration
  • The Cemetery at Winkelhaak Mine
  • The Story Behind the Tower of Light
  • Aiton Court: Relocating Conservation between Poverty and Modern Idealism

From the Directory

  • Benoni - History Now & Then
  • Brian McKechnie - Architect & Heritage Consultant
  • Stellenbosch Interest Group
  • Agora Consulting
  • Lucille Davie - Jozi Tours and Tales
  • Cory Library for Historical Research
  • WIEW Architects
  • ACO Associates
  • City Bowl Ratepayers and Residents Association (CIBRA)
  • Clare Chappel Urban Designer, Architect, Storyteller
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