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Heritage Issues

  • Somerset West Loses an Iconic Heritage Building - The demolition of Blue Waters and the questions it leaves behind
  • Old National Monument Badges and Plaques Under Threat
  • Huntington Hall destroyed by fire
  • Liliesleaf - Making a case for survival
  • The mosaic that is Jeppestown 
  • The Management and Conservation of Heritage Objects housed in State Departments or Supported bodies
  • Why Do Municipalities Not Uphold Their By-Laws - A Case Study from Greater Oudtshoorn
  • Why Existing Heritage Legislation Is Ineffective - An Issue of a Total Lack of Effective Enforcement & Structure
  • Leadership and the role SAHRA can play to facilitate connectivity with and between museums
  • Planners, Protectors and Predators: Public Trust and the tension between Heritage and Planning laws
  • Four strategies to deal with colonial buildings
  • The system has failed to achieve its purpose

From our Archive

  • Heritage hooray for Rand Steam
  • The “loving gesture” has proved to be wholly destructive...
  • Abandoned photograph of significance - Groot-Spelonken School Journey, July 1916
  • Da Gama Park - A little known park with some of the best views of Johannesburg
  • The History behind the Heidelberg Klipkerk
  • Anglo-Boer War Stereo Photographs - Produced by Keystone View Company
  • Sit! Stay! More than a century ago - South African pet canines in front of the lens
  • Aerial photographs that tell two stories!
  • Old, New and Newest in Braamfontein
  • Northcliff Hill - Then and Now
  • That secret Johannesburg canal and stream
  • DocuFest Africa - Showcasing rare and unusual images of life in South Africa during Apartheid
  • Blue Plaque commemorates landmark home on the Linksfield Ridge
  • Digitising Kingswood College's Heritage
  • Visiting historic Hanover via Springfontein

From the Directory

  • Heidelberg Heritage Association
  • Erica Davison THL
  • Dr Anna Trapido - Indigenous and Heritage Food Specialist
  • Collectors Treasury
  • Historical Time Lines
  • Friends of Horwoods Farm
  • Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA)
  • Rietondale Homeowners and Residents Association (RHOARA)
  • Louwkul Design Lab
  • A J Renovatum
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