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Fietas

  • Pageview hero stood his ground for 20 years
  • What’s in a name? Pushing for a more nuanced and dynamic understanding of historical names
  • The dark history behind the Oriental Plaza

From our Archive

  • Twenty-two ZAR employees in an antique photograph - An analysis of an 1893 Barberton image
  • The Old Krugersdorp Court, Magistrate's Offices, Post Office and Telegraph Office
  • Alluvial Diamond Digging at Holpan
  • A stroll through the Heidelberg Kloof cemetery
  • City of Joburg honours the first national publication aimed solely at a black readership
  • A Rare View of Cape Town: The 1818 Choris Lithograph
  • The Weeping Cross from Delville Wood
  • Sophiatown land claim payments top R21m
  • St John’s College, Johannesburg, and the Spanish flu of 1918
  • Rickshaws of early Johannesburg
  • A stroll through the Eastern Joburg suburbs of Orchards, Maryvale, Sydenham and Orange Grove
  • The Origins of Kensington
  • Visiting the oldest extant cemetery in South Africa
  • Deanery then, Koekfontein now - The story of a grand home in Upper Houghton
  • Sammy Marks Museum - The Survival of a Grand Century Old Estate

From the Directory

  • Heritage House, Modderfontein
  • Bridget O'Donoghue Heritage Consulting
  • Horst Müller - Rural & Urban Exploration
  • Erica Davison THL
  • Parktown North Residents Association (PNRA)
  • South African Heritage Resource Agency (SAHRA)
  • RE: DIGITAL
  • Franco Frescura Heritage Consultants
  • Benoni - History Now & Then
  • Makana Residents' Association
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