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Archaeology

  • The Melville Koppies Smelter Comes to Museum Africa
  • Buried Beneath the Presidential Estate: The Rediscovery of the Refugee Camp at Meintjieskop
  • Priceless heritage sites celebrated at Toppieshoek
  • The Place of Kasteelberg in Khoekhoe History
  • A Transvaal Colony Dog Tag from 1903
  • The Silences around the Makapan Cave Siege of 1854
  • A Short History of East Fort Pretoria
  • The Pioneers: Hunter-Gatherer Communities of the Magaliesberg Region
  • Professor Revil John Mason 1929-2020
  • Early mixed farming at the Broederstroom Archaeological Site
  • The Bokoni of Mpumalanga
  • Revil Mason’s Melville Koppies
  • The Lovely Lonehill Koppie
  • A Lone Hill of National Importance
  • One of the most extraordinary archaeological and historical phenomena in Southern Africa

From our Archive

  • Forgotten Railway Sidings of the South Peninsula
  • A short history of the gladius in the Ditsong Museum Collection
  • The Smallest Church in the Southern Hemisphere
  • The Hostels and Compounds of Cullinan
  • The Natal Volunteer Indian Ambulance Services in the Boer War - Legend and Reality
  • Where have all the mine dumps gone?
  • Step into Victorian Joburg
  • Hector Pieterson gets his memorial
  • Digitising Memory: Preserving the Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery and Village Heritage
  • An early South African Philaphotographologist - Frederick William Willis
  • The Scottish Horse Memorial - The story behind one of Johannesburg's earliest war memorials
  • A remarkable set of 33 postcards of Johannesburg circa 1904-08
  • The Addington Children’s Hospital - A Durban Landmark
  • Professor Revil John Mason 1929-2020
  • Visiting the Historic Primrose Cemetery (Germiston)

From the Directory

  • Knysna Historical Society
  • South Africans in WW1, WW2 and Korean War
  • Andre Vercueil Consulting Architects & Heritage Practitioner
  • Stephanie Victor
  • Friends of Alberts Farm
  • Amathole Museum
  • First Nation Cobuqua Indigenous Chapter
  • Historic Bathurst
  • Lesotho Heritage Network
  • Mira Fassler Kamstra - Retired
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