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Jonker Diamond

  • The Cullinan Diamond and other remarkable stones from the Premier / Cullinan Mine

From our Archive

  • The Buildings of C. H. Thrupp and Company over the Decades
  • Before and After - The Tragedy of the Indian High Commission (Arkleton) Perimeter Wall
  • The Amnesia on the Commemoration of African Women in the South African War 
  • Attempted Assassination at Rand Show
  • Windybrow in Context - From Theodore Reunert Home to Windybrow Arts Centre
  • Johannesburg’s ice-cream vendors choose a free-wheeling life
  • Clarendon Circle - Then and Now
  • History and Style of the Bo-Kaap
  • New mosaic marks the site where the Bezuidenhout Valley War Memorial once stood
  • That famous 21st Birthday broadcast from Cape Town... or was it?
  • Amazing places to view the Sandton skyline
  • Billy Monk was a Loaded Gun - A Treasure Trove of Photographs of Cape Town in the 1960s
  • A short history of the whaling industry in South Africa
  • Where have all the mine dumps gone?
  • "I knew in that instant that my life on the run was over" - The capture of Nelson Mandela 5 August 1962

From the Directory

  • Lower Albany Historical Society (LAHS)
  • Charles Thomas - Antique Furniture Restorers
  • Architects Boers Associates
  • Green Point Ratepayers and Residents Association (GPRRA)
  • South African Society of Archivists
  • Benoni - History Now & Then
  • Parkhurst Residents' and Business Owners' Association (PRABOA)
  • Observatory Civic Association (OCA)
  • Pam McLaren - Female Ancestry British Kaffaria & Natal
  • The Conservation Studio - Albany Museum
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  • Voss Bells in Eden
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  • How the Village of Rhodes Became a Heritage Area
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