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Heritage Venues

  • Step into a wagon and go back 200 years
  • Port Alfred's Historic Castle
  • A short history of one of the oldest homes in Bathurst
  • Mariendahl Brewery - One of South Africa's finest industrial monuments
  • Old Park Station - A heritage site of exceptional significance comes alive again!
  • One of Sandton's oldest structures set to serve the local community
  • Windybrow in Context - From Theodore Reunert Home to Windybrow Arts Centre
  • The Early History of Irene Farm
  • ‘Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa’: Logan of Matjiesfontein
  • A short history of Port Elizabeth's famous Campanile
  • Newtown's Edwardian Lavatory survives against the odds
  • Air Crash Monument a Must
  • Norscot Manor - Built on a scale few could afford today!
  • Tait House Benoni Inspires
  • Kathy Munro visits Vergelegen
  • Inside one of South Africa's Most Prestigious Heritage Hotels
  • Rand Club - A Grand Past with an Uncertain Future

From our Archive

  • Destination Hillbrow - celebrating walking, living and heritage
  • A few photographs of Johannesburg at the turn of the 20th century
  • Silver Cross for Gallantry posthumously awarded to two police Constables
  • Hector's sister tells the story still
  • The only known 'Herbert Baker' house in Kensington
  • 1950 Commemorative Booklet reveals wonderful photographs of Jan Smuts
  • Markhams' battle for survival
  • Cullinan Mine - Open Pit and Haulage
  • The Unlikely Birth of the South African Lipizzaner
  • Hidden Treasures of the Riemland
  • Twenty-two ZAR employees in an antique photograph - An analysis of an 1893 Barberton image
  • Three Historic Johannesburg Passes
  • Helpmekaar and the Making of an Urban Afrikaner World
  • Murrell Robinson Robinson - Dedicated Public Servant
  • The Blaauwkrantz Bridge Disaster

From the Directory

  • South African Society of Archivists
  • Westcliff Residents Association (WRA)
  • South African Heritage Resource Agency (SAHRA)
  • Boikanyo oo Menwe Foundation
  • Limpopo Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (LIHRA)
  • Mayat Hart Architecture
  • Wheat Industry Museum
  • Osmond Lange Architects
  • Middelburg Karoo Tourism
  • National Heritage Council (NHC)
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