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Franco Frescura

  • An Inquiry into South Africa’s Crumbling Past
  • Port Elizabeth - An Abridged History of an Apartheid City
  • Probably the earliest record of Ndebele wall decoration I have discovered to date
  • List of Mission Stations in South Africa
  • Frescura releases lists to researchers
  • She took no prisoners and let no grass grow beneath her feet - Franco Frescura pays tribute to Helen Aron
  • The Poster Age, 1968-1972 - Plastering the Campus red and blue and black
  • Some thoughts on Keiskammahoek
  • Photos of Pageview in 1973
  • Some memories of Rosebank in 1966
  • Historical Conservation in South Africa - An Unmitigated Disaster?
  • Cape Colony Convict Stations and Road Construction Crews
  • Blockhouses of the South African War
  • Editing Our Past

From our Archive

  • What happened in the Potchefstroom concentration camp
  • Restoring Kitchen Car 269: the Curious Tale of the Designer
  • An Elephant Whisperer in Hermanus? The Story of Harold Langford-Browne
  • The man who discovered the Sterkfontein Caves
  • A Rotten Place to Die
  • Markhams' battle for survival
  • Kirti Menon and Gandhi’s legacy
  • Melville Koppies bags heritage award
  • A Lone Hill of National Importance
  • Rising from the Ashes - The 1926 Restoration of Groot Constantia
  • "I knew in that instant that my life on the run was over" - The capture of Nelson Mandela 5 August 1962
  • Last Chance to see 'A City Refracted'
  • The system has failed to achieve its purpose
  • Solving the riddle of the site of all the late 1938 to early 1940s burials in the Brixton Cemetery
  • 99 Years of the Ultimate Human Race: A Journey through Comrades History

From the Directory

  • Limpopo Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (LIHRA)
  • South African Institute for Heritage Science and Conservation
  • HP Architects & Heritage Architects
  • Gauteng Provincial Government - Department of Infrastructure Development - Directorate of Public Healthcare
  • Makana Residents' Association
  • Save our Berea
  • Benoni - History Now & Then
  • Eastern Cape Institute of Architects (ECIA)
  • Estelle Liebenberg-Barkhuizen - Paper Conservator
  • Mahikeng Society
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