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Braamfontein Cemetery

  • Mystery of Braamfontein's arched grave solved!
  • The reinterment of the remains of the first (and last) Consul General of the Ottoman Empire posted to South Africa
  • Solving the Mystery Behind "Grannie's Grave" in Braamfontein Cemetery
  • The Story Behind the 1922 Rand Revolt Centenary Stone
  • Two cemetery buildings illegally demolished
  • The search for Enoch Sontonga
  • The Johannesburg Way of Death - The History of the Johannesburg Crematorium

From our Archive

  • Century old photographs reveal the story of James Gribble, Paarl based photographer
  • June 16, 1976 - 'This is our day'
  • Early Standerton through the eyes of a deltiologist
  • Vogelstruisbult Tragedy - An abandoned Springs Gold Mine
  • The contested but pivotal legacy of missionary education in South Africa
  • The Early History of Tara Sandton
  • The History of Witkoppen School
  • South Africa's Famous Ox-Tamer
  • Visiting the oldest extant cemetery in South Africa
  • Peers the Artist - In search of Charles Ernest Peers (Part 2)
  • Witnessing History - Correcting my memory of Hastings Ndlovu
  • Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker, and Imperial Delhi
  • When a Provincial Heritage Site is so desecrated one must question how they should be protected
  • Maria Ratschitz Mission in the Wasbank Valley
  • A Novelist in Hermanus

From the Directory

  • Klerksdorp Museum
  • Jenna Mervis - Author and Museum Storyteller
  • Durbanville Heritage Society (DHS)
  • Historic Pig and Whistle Inn
  • Africana Books & Collectibles
  • ARCON Conservation Architects & Spatial Heritage Consultants
  • Heritage Association of South Africa (HASA)
  • Shaw Badenhorst - Researcher
  • Martin Hatchuel - Writer, Horticulturist and Tourism Consultant
  • Dr Anna Trapido - Indigenous and Heritage Food Specialist
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