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Jewish Heritage

  • Blue Plaque celebrates Jewish contribution to Muizenberg
  • Irving Lissoos - coming of age in Jewish Johannesburg
  • The Great Synagogue in Hillbrow
  • A Short History of the Jewish Community in Joburg
  • The fascinating story behind one of Sandton's oldest shops
  • The Old Synagogue in the Gardens
  • The Poswohl Synagogue - A Memorial to a Community that No Longer Exists

From our Archive

  • Some interesting facts about two famous South African bakers
  • Chinese New Year Lights Up Johannesburg's Derrick Avenue in Cultural Spectacle
  • Advice on Wooden Floor Restoration
  • Frescura, with good reason, suggests that conservation in South Africa is a disaster
  • Asian food snails in Zoo Lake - A living legacy of Chinese indentured labourers on the gold fields of 1904?
  • Joburg’s castles
  • Principles and Parallels in South African Water and Heritage Protections - Custodianship, the Constitution, and the Limits of Ownership
  • Visiting one of the oldest pubs in Gauteng
  • East London's Father of Photography - Osborne Morley (1850-1926)
  • Kenneth Stanley Birch – born in 1914, Johannesburg memorialist
  • The House that Dynamite Built
  • 80 Albert Street - The nerve centre for controlling black people's lives during the early stages of apartheid
  • The Rebirth of the Germiston Carnegie Library
  • The man who discovered the Sterkfontein Caves
  • A remarkable set of 33 postcards of Johannesburg circa 1904-08

From the Directory

  • Africa Media Online
  • Kommetjie Heritage Society
  • Irene Village Hall
  • Vidamemoria Heritage Consultants
  • Cape Dutch Quarters
  • Johannesburg Urban Forest Alliance (JUFA)
  • Ladysmith Siege Museum Trust
  • Hout Bay and Llandudno Heritage Trust
  • South East Witwatersrand Family History Society (SEWFHS)
  • Five Hundred Year Archive Project
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