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Military History

  • Potchefstroom's Gunpowder Magazine: From Military Necessity to Heritage Site
  • History of the Ditsong National Museum of Military History
  • A Boer War Novelty
  • Fort Napier 1843 - 2023 - One of the longest lasting and most peaceful military structures in South Africa
  • Anglo-Boer War sketches, Magic Lanterns and the Lanternist
  • British Ammunition Expenditure / Kill Ratio at the Battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift
  • Finding Job Maseko - It is not Masego, it is Maseko
  • From Bergville to East Africa (1916-1918), never to return…
  • Delville Wood - The costliest action the South African Brigade fought on the Western Front
  • Gordons Bay Coastal Defence Battery 1943
  • A Short History of the Battles of Silkaatsnek
  • The Mystery of the Missing Major General
  • A Short History of the Battle of Dwarsvlei
  • Was there an Italian POW Camp in Pringle Bay during World War II?
  • Portrait of a Springbok - Lest we forget
  • The Missing Hours at Isandlwana
  • The Execution of Christian Woite
  • Searching for the Zulu Mass Graves at Kambula
  • A Short History of East Fort Pretoria
  • Fort Pine - Place of refuge after the battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift

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From our Archive

  • To Okavango and Chobe on foot in 1884 - A Dundonian Odyssey
  • Go well Pat Rundgren - you were one of a kind
  • Benguela - More than just a current
  • Some Remarkable History in Coega
  • Johannesburg as seen through the eyes of a young schoolboy in the late 1940s, early 1950s and later as a young married man in the early 1960s
  • How the name of Clarendon Place came about
  • A remarkable album of early 20th century views of Johannesburg
  • British Ammunition Expenditure / Kill Ratio at the Battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift
  • Witnessing History - Correcting my memory of Hastings Ndlovu
  • Gauteng’s only artesian spring
  • Going Inside the Kensington Castle
  • Village Life - The great magazine that was
  • The Royal Navy in Hermanus in 1961
  • Restoring one of Kimberley's grandest homes in 1976
  • The Unfinished Story of the Hardekraaltjie Cemetery

From the Directory

  • African Conservation Trust (ACT)
  • Friends of the Rail (FOTR)
  • Greenside Residents Association (GRA)
  • Daveyton Heritage Society
  • Johannesburg Urban Forest Alliance (JUFA)
  • Strandlopers
  • South African Institute for Heritage Science and Conservation
  • Braamfontein Spruit Trust
  • Port Alfred Ratepayers Association (PARRA)
  • Ulwazi Programme
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