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Pam McFadden

  • Was Gandhi at Spioenkop?
  • Go well Pat Rundgren - you were one of a kind
  • Welcome to Ladysmith, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
  • The Weeping Cross from Delville Wood
  • Delville Wood - The costliest action the South African Brigade fought on the Western Front
  • A Short History of Talana Farm Cemetery
  • A Short History of the Talana Glass Factory
  • The Natal Volunteer Indian Ambulance Services in the Boer War - Legend and Reality
  • Coal mining and the Anglo Boer War 1899-1902
  • Victoria Cross special awards with a South African connection
  • To Okavango and Chobe on foot in 1884 - A Dundonian Odyssey
  • Maria Ratschitz Mission in the Wasbank Valley
  • An incredible memoir revealing the suffering of women during the Anglo-Boer War
  • The Epic March of 7 000 Zulu Workers
  • How horses saved besieged Ladysmith
  • Fort Pine - Place of refuge after the battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift
  • The mystery of the Penn Symons flag
  • The Royal Tour of 1901
  • The Long Tom Gun at Dundee
  • How Fort Mistake got its name

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From our Archive

  • South Africa's World Record Breaking Train!
  • 2017 Most Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites in South Africa Announced 
  • A mysterious grave next to a railway line
  • Winnie's pain and torture in prison
  • Surveying the buildings of Paarl (in 1980)
  • Visiting the Historic Primrose Cemetery (Germiston)
  • Why Alexandra survived apartheid
  • Blue plaques and their inspiring possibilities
  • "I knew in that instant that my life on the run was over" - The capture of Nelson Mandela 5 August 1962
  • A post Boer War letter from a Rooinek to a Dutch Girl
  • HF Gros and his remarkable collection of early Transvaal Photographs
  • Simonstown: A Victorian Photo Album dissected 160 years later
  • Go well Pat Rundgren - you were one of a kind
  • Zonderwater - Almost certainly the Largest Allied POW Camp in the World
  • Thomas Charles John Bain - One of South Africa's greatest engineers

From the Directory

  • Limpopo Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (LIHRA)
  • Simon's Town Historical Society
  • Memorist
  • Hawequa-|Xam Community
  • Horst Müller - Rural & Urban Exploration
  • Hearth Heritage
  • George Heritage Trust
  • Heritage Railway Association of South Africa (HRASA)
  • Kalk Bay St James Ratepayers and Residents Association
  • Southern African Historical Society (SAHS)
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