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Heritage Legislation

  • How the Village of Rhodes Became a Heritage Area
  • Blue Waters: Could Cape Town’s New Heritage Strategy Have Saved It?
  • Heritage Processes in South Africa - Frequently asked questions
  • The Unfinished Story of the Hardekraaltjie Cemetery
  • Spatial Development Plan must address heritage preservation in Johannesburg
  • Recalcitrant City: Cape Town, permission, procrastination and smokescreens
  • 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
  • Making The Grade - Observations on the Grading of Archaeological and Palaeontological Heritage Sites
  • What is the meaning of heritage?
  • Why Existing Heritage Legislation Is Ineffective - An Issue of a Total Lack of Effective Enforcement & Structure
  • Planners, Protectors and Predators: Public Trust and the tension between Heritage and Planning laws
  • Where to from here... 20 Years of the National Heritage Resources Act
  • Response to “Heritage house owners should be compensated by a property tax cut”

From our Archive

  • The Early History of Boksburg
  • Rider Haggard - Lost in Pretoria?
  • Norman House - Gone but not forgotten
  • Refurbishing the Muizenberg Carnegie Library and Post Office
  • Knysna Gold - How it all started
  • 'One of our few remaining links with a bygone Johannesburg'
  • The Weber Family at Driefontein Farm Sandton
  • Winnie's pain and torture in prison
  • SA removes sites from the UNESCO world heritage tentative list
  • Who was the Douglas in Douglasdale?
  • Finding the earliest known photographs of Prince Albert in a Johannesburg Charity Shop
  • The Smallest Church in the Southern Hemisphere
  • Destination Hillbrow - celebrating walking, living and heritage
  • The History of Witkoppen School
  • Inside Sutton Place Sandton

From the Directory

  • Bibliophile
  • The South African Antique, Art & Design Association (SAADA)
  • South African Museum Association (SAMA)
  • Gardens of the Golden City
  • Mira Fassler Kamstra - Retired
  • Braamfontein Spruit Trust
  • Benoni Heritage Society
  • Heritage Association of South Africa (HASA)
  • Peter Glendinning
  • Johan van Heerden - Researcher
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