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Oscar Norwich

  • Windybrow and Theodore Reunert
  • The History of Early Gaols in Johannesburg and the Development of The Johannesburg Fort
  • The Barnato Park Story
  • Researching, Recording and Restoration - The Origins of the Johannesburg Historical Society
  • The Rise and Fall of Barney Barnato
  • The Henry Charles Hull Story: Law, Politics and Mining in Early Johannesburg
  • Hohenheim - The Life and Death of one of Johannesburg's Great Historic Homes
  • The Randlords
  • A Rare View of Cape Town: The 1818 Choris Lithograph
  • The Historic Sites of Early Johannesburg
  • The Naming of Johannesburg
  • Johannesburg - A Goldfield Discovered
  • When did Johannesburg first appear on a map?
  • Norman House - Gone but not forgotten
  • One of Joburg's Oldest Mansions in a Plumber's Backyard

From our Archive

  • Witnessing History - Correcting my memory of Hastings Ndlovu
  • A Bloody Riot in Soweto in 1957
  • Ken Boffard - wrestling the Grim Reaper
  • Burgers Park - A Victorian Heritage (As portrayed in picture postcards from more than a century ago)
  • Remarkable photographs of a 1970s trip through South West Africa
  • Malagas/Malgas and Joseph Barry
  • Charles Rhangani Furumele - meeting ends for the children
  • Sandton's Forgotten Race Track
  • A new perspective on Johannesburg trams
  • Remembering the 'Eiffel Tower of the Rand'
  • A Century of Pretoria's Holy Redeemer Catholic Church
  • Looking back at the Woolff Restoration of the Donkin Row Houses
  • Photographs of Johannesburg in the late 1950s and early 1960s
  • Recalcitrant City: Cape Town, permission, procrastination and smokescreens
  • Visiting the Historic Harrismith Cemetery

From the Directory

  • Parkview Residents Association (PRA)
  • Magaliesberg Association for Cultural Heritage (MACH)
  • Border Historical Society
  • Jenna Mervis - Author and Museum Storyteller
  • Bruce Eitzen - New World Associates Landscape Architects
  • Heritage Railway Association of South Africa (HRASA)
  • Wynberg Residents and Ratepayers Association (WRRA)
  • Krugersdorp Heritage Association
  • Hartbeespoort Environment and Heritage Association (HEHA)
  • Sticky Situations
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  • Peter Rich, Architect in Search of African Place-Making
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  • Does anyone recognise the woman in this painting?
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