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Capture Site

  • "I knew in that instant that my life on the run was over" - The capture of Nelson Mandela 5 August 1962
  • Mandela’s head rises in Howick

From our Archive

  • ‘Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa’: Logan of Matjiesfontein
  • Our Forgotten Heritage – The Beleaguered Blockhouses
  • Ken Boffard - wrestling the Grim Reaper
  • The tree with the most historic significance in old Nelspruit
  • The 'Smoking Concert' prior to the Battle of Elandslaagte
  • The Silences around the Makapan Cave Siege of 1854
  • Irving Lissoos - coming of age in Jewish Johannesburg
  • Postmortem Photography in South Africa
  • 1932 Leeudoringstad explosion of 320 tons of dynamite
  • Hugh Lane's Vision for the Johannesburg Art Gallery
  • The First Successful Cape to Cairo Expedition by Motor Vehicle
  • Stereo Photography - Mesmerising viewers since 1851
  • Dean Goods: The Little Engine That Went To War
  • An ode to Bra Fighter - A South African music connoisseur
  • Asian food snails in Zoo Lake - A living legacy of Chinese indentured labourers on the gold fields of 1904?

From the Directory

  • Boikanyo oo Menwe Foundation
  • Hermanus Ratepayers Association
  • Historical Society of Port Elizabeth
  • Susan Jean Taylor
  • Sticky Situations
  • Africa Media Online
  • Camps Bay Ratepayers and Residents Association (CBRRA)
  • Wheat Industry Museum
  • Kommetjie Heritage Society
  • Heritage Potchefstroom Erfenis
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