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Company History

  • South Africa’s Oldest Bank - A photographic journey
  • The Buildings of C. H. Thrupp and Company over the Decades

From our Archive

  • The Audience in the Room: Who is Cape Town's Cultural Heritage For?
  • Was Gandhi at Spioenkop?
  • A priceless Joburg archive - Q&A with Lucille Davie
  • Some memories of Rosebank in 1966
  • Peers the Artist - In search of Charles Ernest Peers (Part 2)
  • The Tay Bridge Disaster
  • The Story Behind the Monument to Petrus Molefe
  • The mystery of the goat-horned Ndebele ‘doll’ at the Wits Art Museum (WAM)
  • The rise of railway preservation in Britain
  • The History of Early Gaols in Johannesburg and the Development of The Johannesburg Fort
  • Keeping Gandhi out of the Heidelberg Gaol
  • Editing Our Past
  • Visiting one of the most important Muslim tombs in the Western Cape
  • The Bibliophile of Johannesburg: Remembering Geoff Klass and His Towers of Books
  • Busting Out - Transplanting the heart of Johannesburg in the 1960s

From the Directory

  • Strandlopers
  • Genealogical Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • WIEW Architects
  • Cindy Postlethwayt Heritage Consultant
  • Western Cape Numismatic Society
  • Bibliophile
  • Jeremy Hollmann: rock art
  • First Nation Cobuqua Indigenous Chapter
  • Prof Walter Peters - Architect & Heritage Practitioner
  • Architects Boers Associates
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