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Historic Schools

  • Blue plaques and a new heritage route for Jeppe Boys
  • Brief History of St Ursula’s School
  • The History of Witkoppen School
  • Memories of Parktown Preparatory School (PTPS)
  • Celebrating Heritage at Clifton
  • A hundred years ago: St John’s College, Johannesburg, in 1920
  • St John’s College, Johannesburg, and the Spanish flu of 1918
  • Historic sculptures at St Andrew’s School for Girls restored
  • The Early History of St David's Marist Inanda
  • My Mission School Memories - Inanda Seminary
  • The contested but pivotal legacy of missionary education in South Africa
  • Lest We Forget - The case for the documentation of missionary education heritage in South Africa

From our Archive

  • Somerset House - A Preservationist's Dilemma
  • Busting Out - Transplanting the heart of Johannesburg in the 1960s
  • A South African Prequel to Downton Abbey
  • Deep concern for Parktown's oldest surviving house
  • Dr. Beeching, Hero or Villain?
  • The South African baboon that became a war hero
  • The Heritage Community says farewell to a courageous and eccentric Johannesburg character
  • Looking back at the Roeland Street Prison
  • Johannesburg in 1893
  • Potchefstroom railway station destroyed by fire
  • Where are the 'singing tomorrows' of the Freedom Charter?
  • Visiting the Historic Simon’s Town Old Burying Ground
  • From Dortmund with Love - The Yeoville Water Tower in Johannesburg, 1913-1914
  • Peach and cherry orchards in Linden
  • The recovery of an element of Cape Town’s lost transportation heritage

From the Directory

  • Parkview Residents Association (PRA)
  • Swellendam Heritage Association (SHA)
  • South East Witwatersrand Family History Society (SEWFHS)
  • Mpumalanga Institute of Architects (MPIA)
  • Pretoria Institute for Architecture (PIA)
  • DijonDesign
  • Keitumetse Mangate Production Company
  • Glassworks
  • Wynberg East Civic Association (WECA)
  • Historic Bathurst
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