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Lennie Gouws

  • The First Successful Cape to Cairo Expedition by Motor Vehicle
  • NWU Main Building – The Icon of Potchefstroom
  • Potchefstroom's Gunpowder Magazine: From Military Necessity to Heritage Site
  • 1932 Leeudoringstad explosion of 320 tons of dynamite
  • New Year’s Eve murder in Potchefstroom
  • Okey Lewis – Forgotten Olympic gold medal cyclist
  • Alexandra Park – the lost green heart of Potchefstroom
  • The 1912 super-athlete from South Africa – Kenneth McArthur
  • Oscar Wilhelm Alric Forssman - Wealthy man who suffered devastating losses
  • The tragic stories about the early doctors of Potchefstroom
  • What happened in the Potchefstroom concentration camp
  • Potch pets in old pictures
  • Potchefstroom railway station destroyed by fire
  • Potchefstroom has lost one of its grand old buildings
  • Twists and turns in the tale of a clock
  • The Pests of Potch
  • Landmark Potchefstroom building to be sold at auction
  • Concerns over Longest Avenue of Oak Trees in South Africa
  • Hidden Treasures of the Riemland
  • The Mills of Potchefstroom

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From our Archive

  • A short history of the gladius in the Ditsong Museum Collection
  • The Tragedy of Richardson's Mill near Bathurst
  • Face to Face with the Taung Child
  • The Buildings of C. H. Thrupp and Company over the Decades
  • Sir William Hoy (1868-1930) - His life beyond Hermanus
  • Re-imagining the Planetarium as the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome
  • The reinterment of the remains of the first (and last) Consul General of the Ottoman Empire posted to South Africa
  • Visiting the Historic Britstown Cemetery
  • Barnett's Views of Johannesburg and Suburbs - A window on the world that was early Johannesburg
  • Billy Monk was a Loaded Gun - A Treasure Trove of Photographs of Cape Town in the 1960s
  • Uproar in the Cape - The Arrival of the Convict Ship Neptune in 1849
  • Anglo-Boer War Stereo Photographs - Produced by Keystone View Company
  • That famous 21st Birthday broadcast from Cape Town... or was it?
  • Celebrating women in maritime archaeology
  • Aiton Court: Relocating Conservation between Poverty and Modern Idealism

From the Directory

  • Sandstone Heritage Trust
  • Greater Vredehoek Heritage Action Group
  • Arcadia Residents and Ratepayers Association (ARRA)
  • Brian McKechnie - Architect & Heritage Consultant
  • Upper Houghton Residents Association (UHRA)
  • St Ursula's Museum, Art Gallery & Research Centre
  • Roodt Architects
  • Observatory Civic Association (OCA)
  • Friends of the General Smuts Foundation
  • Dr Dustin A Tusnovics Architect
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