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Coins

  • The Tickey – a legendary South African Coin
  • Shipwreck Gold Coins from South Africa
  • Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Pondoland, South Africa (Part 2)
  • Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Pondoland, South Africa (Part 1)

From our Archive

  • Herbert Baker’s Stonehouse captures his spirit
  • Some early Piquetberg farms illustrated by Johannes Cornelius Poortermans
  • A Short History of the Pepper Tree
  • Asian food snails in Zoo Lake - A living legacy of Chinese indentured labourers on the gold fields of 1904?
  • An intriguing century old pamphlet of the 1913 Mineworkers Strike
  • The German Monarchy, Merino Sheep and a Wool Merchant
  • Dark tourism disaster and the terrible Laingsburg flood of 1981
  • Photographs of Johannesburg in the late 1950s and early 1960s
  • David Stewart Howie - Anglo-Boer War Correspondent and Amateur Photographer
  • One of the most fascinating architectural features in the whole of Southern Africa
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • Following in Burchell's tracks
  • A New Era Dawns - The first fifteen years of the South African Railways (SAR)
  • Indian Trading, Art Deco Buildings and Urban Modernity: Jubilee House in Krugersdorp
  • The Remarkable Chinese Paired Swords at Ditsong

From the Directory

  • Association for Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA)
  • Kalk Bay St James Ratepayers and Residents Association
  • St Ursula's Museum, Art Gallery & Research Centre
  • James Findlay Collectable Books & Antique Maps
  • Joburg Photowalkers
  • Cape Town Family History Society
  • Saxonwold and Parkwood Residents Association (SAPRA)
  • Cory Library for Historical Research
  • Kensington Heritage Trust
  • Hardijzer Photographic Research Collection
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