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Hymie Amoils

  • The Poswohl Synagogue - A Memorial to a Community that No Longer Exists

From our Archive

  • Newtown's Edwardian Lavatory survives against the odds
  • Heroic Efforts to Save the Kimberley City Hall
  • Celebrating the remarkable life of Herbert Prins
  • Mampoer: Documenting South Africa's Traditional Distilling Heritage
  • The man who discovered the Sterkfontein Caves
  • A Short History of the Talana Glass Factory
  • Jan Christian Smuts 1870 - 1950
  • Sit! Stay! More than a century ago - South African pet canines in front of the lens
  • Celebrating Heritage at Clifton
  • Forbidden Images (1960s to 1980s) - Illegal photographs captured by young men conscripted into the South African Military
  • JC Munro - Pretoria's longest serving photographer during the turn of the 20th century
  • Separated by a Common Language
  • Behind the Lens - 50 plus German-born photographers active in South Africa between 1846 and 1915
  • The 1913 Land Act
  • Carl Friedrich Adolf Wundram - Piet Retief’s only recorded photographer between the 1890s and 1910

From the Directory

  • Past Experiences
  • Mira Fassler Kamstra - Retired
  • Muizenberg - Then and Now
  • Roodt Architects
  • Dr Dean Allen - Author Lecturer Historian
  • Provincial Heritage Resources Authority Gauteng (PHRAG)
  • Friends of the Rail (FOTR)
  • South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH)
  • FCTEC
  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
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  • How the Village of Rhodes Became a Heritage Area
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