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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

  • Nighttime at the Johannesburg Zoo (and some history)
  • The Power of Rust
  • Gauteng’s only artesian spring
  • Surgeon in Trouble - Protesting for Biko and Woods
  • Commemorating the Brave – The World War I Cenotaph at Victoria Falls
  • Is it still worth planning?
  • Celebrating Chinese New Year in Cyrildene
  • A personal tribute to Marcus Holmes
  • The British Hit Parade Before the Beatles
  • A walking tour of historic Calvinia
  • The Katlehong Bantu are grumbling - let them have more playgrounds
  • Government Avenue Cape Town - South Africa's oldest pedestrian thoroughfare
  • The McHardy Family of Cullinan
  • The Father of East London's House
  • Farewell to one of South Africa's great architects

From the Directory

  • Williams Cultural Management (WCM)
  • Pinelands Ratepayers and Residents Associations (PRRA)
  • Jeremy Hazell Universal Access Consultant
  • Stephanie Victor
  • Emmarentia Residents Association (ERA)
  • Tony Westby-Nunn
  • Joburg Places
  • Soweto History and Archives Project
  • Ship Society
  • Hugh Fraser - Guided Tours
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