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Bantu World

  • City of Joburg honours the first national publication aimed solely at a black readership

From our Archive

  • Hidden arcade re-emerges after four and a half decades
  • A stroll through the Eastern Joburg suburbs of Orchards, Maryvale, Sydenham and Orange Grove
  • Melanie Yap - Chinese voice
  • Stories from a Diamond Mine - The Early Days
  • On the lighter side - Some funny and peculiar South African vintage photographs
  • Rickshaws of early Johannesburg
  • Victoria Cross special awards with a South African connection
  • Delta Sewage Disposal Works, 1934 to 1963
  • Johannesburg’s mayors
  • A short history of one of the oldest homes in Bathurst
  • The Poster Age, 1968-1972 - Plastering the Campus red and blue and black
  • Lion Battery - The Russians and the Noon Gun
  • Meandering along the Sea Point Promenade
  • Hermanus History and Powered Flight
  • Digitising Kingswood College's Heritage

From the Directory

  • Antiquarian Auctions
  • Pretoria Institute for Architecture (PIA)
  • KZN Family History Society
  • Erasmus Fairbairn Architects
  • Hawequa-|Xam Community
  • Mandela Bay Heritage Trust (MBHT)
  • South African Institute of Architects (SAIA)
  • Kensington Residents and Ratepayers Association (KRRA)
  • Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa (VASSA)
  • South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH)
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  • Where to for the Groote Schuur Collection? Absence, Inheritance, and Possibility in Heritage Collections
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  • Volksrust (Llanwarne/Langwane) - A Transvaal Border Town Through the Eyes of a Deltiologist
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  • Peter Rich, Architect in Search of African Place-Making
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