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Graves

  • The Lost Graves of the Jameson Raiders
  • The Wagner-Hoffa Legacy: A Tale of Two Scientific Pioneers from Richmond
  • Commemorating the Brave – The World War I Cenotaph at Victoria Falls
  • Tracing Cape Rebels from Colesberg to Uniondale
  • Vandalised headstones in Brixton Cemetery
  • Mystery of Braamfontein's arched grave solved!
  • Solving the riddle of the site of all the late 1938 to early 1940s burials in the Brixton Cemetery
  • 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
  • A Short History of Talana Farm Cemetery
  • Locating the Victims of the 1922 Rand Revolt
  • Visiting historic Hanover via Springfontein
  • Traces of the Basuto Wars
  • Merther, Minerals & Migrations - Three generations of the Lavin family
  • Finding the grave of Nat Nakasa in New York
  • Birth of the South African Air Force
  • Visiting the historic St Paul’s Anglican Church and Graveyard
  • Visiting the Historic Bultfontein Cemetery
  • South Africa's Road to Nowhere
  • Visiting the historic Brook Street Cemetery, Durban

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From our Archive

  • Burgers Park - A Victorian Heritage (As portrayed in picture postcards from more than a century ago)
  • Honouring the 'Father of Nguni Literature'
  • Sport and People of Cullinan
  • Tracing Cape Rebels from Colesberg to Uniondale
  • Tram Spotting - Pretoria Tram Services as depicted on early Picture Postcards (1900s to 1920s)
  • The Kimberley Memorial to the Honoured Dead - Cecil Rhodes, Herbert Baker, and the Architecture of Memory
  • Was there an Italian POW Camp in Pringle Bay during World War II?
  • The Heritage Portal in Numbers (December 2020)
  • TD Ravenscroft and his photography
  • The history of the oldest continually lived in house North of the Orange River
  • Where else can you cross paths with Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi in one day?
  • The Katlehong Bantu are grumbling - let them have more playgrounds
  • The Mills of Potchefstroom
  • A short history of one the Cape's earliest freehold farms
  • The Battle behind Isandlwana - The fight for the Amanzimnyama Drift and Fugitive's Trail

From the Directory

  • Green Point Ratepayers and Residents Association (GPRRA)
  • Modderfontein Conservation Society
  • Talana Museum
  • Johannesburg Urban Forest Alliance (JUFA)
  • Friends of Blaauwberg Conservation Area (FoBCA)
  • Gardens of the Golden City
  • Hawequa-|Xam Community
  • Tshwane Building Heritage
  • Bibliophile
  • Mike Kantey
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