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Memorials

  • The Unbuilt Kimberley Nymphaeum
  • The Lost Graves of the Jameson Raiders
  • The Scottish Horse Memorial: Honouring the Fallen in Edinburgh and Johannesburg
  • Commemorating the Brave – The World War I Cenotaph at Victoria Falls
  • Tracing Cape Rebels from Colesberg to Uniondale
  • The Story Behind the 1922 Rand Revolt Centenary Stone
  • Traces of the Basuto Wars
  • Visiting the Historic Village of Wakkerstroom
  • Slave Sales and Cape Town's Slave Tree Memorial
  • New mosaic marks the site where the Bezuidenhout Valley War Memorial once stood
  • Memorials to the Zulu dead at Isandlwana
  • A journey into the rich history of the vandalised Scottish Horse Memorial Kensington
  • The Indian War Memorial: National Memory and Selective Forgetting
  • German War Graves in South Africa
  • Remembering the East Africa Campaign during World War I
  • Gone but not forgotten - The landmark Barlow Fountain
  • Reflections on the end of World War I and the impact of war
  • Cleaning the Joburg Cenotaph - Before, During and After
  • Kedar Lodge - Heritage, History and Paul Kruger
  • Bez Valley War Memorial to be moved

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From our Archive

  • TD Ravenscroft and his photography
  • Historic Bookplates from Southern African Institutional Libraries
  • Newtown Cooling Towers - Preserve or Demolish?
  • How 'Meccano' inspired generations of engineers
  • The mosaic that is Jeppestown 
  • Ouma keeps historic town alive
  • Historical Conservation in South Africa - An Unmitigated Disaster?
  • A Brief History of Roads in South Africa - In the Beginning
  • Anglo-Boer War sketches, Magic Lanterns and the Lanternist
  • South Africa’s last coppersmith
  • An incredible memoir revealing the suffering of women during the Anglo-Boer War
  • Spanish Train and Other Stories - Some thoughts on the AFRO 4000 Saga
  • Railways in the Rainbow Nation, thoughts on SONA 2019
  • Report from the 2012 Heritage SA Symposium
  • NZASM Structures of the Southern Line

From the Directory

  • Pinelands Ratepayers and Residents Associations (PRRA)
  • Susan Jean Taylor
  • Constantia Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association
  • Cape Town Heritage Trust (CTHT)
  • Cory Library for Historical Research
  • Shortalogy
  • Van Biljon Barnardo Architects
  • Italcotto Roofing
  • Gardens of the Golden City
  • African Conservation Trust (ACT)
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