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Heritage Monitoring Project

  • A nation in 66 places: the national heritage sites of South Africa
  • Endangered Heritage Sites 2017 - Longlist Announced
  • Endangered Heritage Sites Update - April 2017
  • Our vanishing heritage – South Africa’s top ten endangered sites 2016
  • Changes to SA's tentative world heritage list - Government and stakeholders respond
  • SA removes sites from the UNESCO world heritage tentative list

From our Archive

  • It’s a match! Early Tweddill photograph and portrait painting matched
  • Mandela’s head rises in Howick
  • The Top Star Drive-in Saga
  • Hunter and hunted photographed - Early South African hunting photographs (1860s to 1910)
  • Carl Bluhm's contribution to early Eastern Cape photography - A career tragically cut short
  • An Unusual 1954 Railway Map of South Africa
  • Growing up on a Sandton Farm
  • The Birth of the Union Buildings
  • The Place of Kasteelberg in Khoekhoe History
  • Johannesburg in 1893
  • "A Great City Deserves Great Cathedrals"
  • Another brick in the wall – forgotten Kirkness bricks and fireplaces at the UNISA Sunnyside campus
  • Civic Spine 1989-1991 - The voice of the architects
  • History of the Ditsong National Museum of Military History
  • Brass Plaque reveals a history of a distinguished man and his architectural firm

From the Directory

  • Collectors Treasury
  • Van Biljon Barnardo Architects
  • Mike Kantey
  • Upper Houghton Residents Association (UHRA)
  • Discover Kaapsehoop
  • Gardens of the Golden City
  • NGT Infraco
  • Saxonwold and Parkwood Residents Association (SAPRA)
  • Friends of the Knysna Libraries
  • South African Institute for Heritage Science and Conservation
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