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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

  • Wanooka a grand old place again (restored in 2010)
  • Abandoned photograph of significance - Groot-Spelonken School Journey, July 1916
  • The Preservation of Pimville Soweto
  • Passionate about tennis - A South African photo album of historical significance (1909 - 1913)
  • Mastertons Coffee & Tea Specialists: A Century of Family Roasting Heritage (1924-2024)
  • Century old photographs reveal the story of James Gribble, Paarl based photographer
  • Finding my grandmother
  • Outsider Art
  • The vanished world of Mr Man Tong and his shop at 25 Stanley Avenue, Richmond
  • 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
  • Is it heritage? Graffiti wall art and Pinki’s Inn, Jeppestown
  • The 1954 SAA Comet Disaster
  • The Nunnery at Wits - Created in a Weekend and Still Going Strong
  • Dark tourism disaster and the terrible Laingsburg flood of 1981
  • Maria Ratschitz Mission in the Wasbank Valley

From the Directory

  • Bruce Eitzen - New World Associates Landscape Architects
  • Western Cape Numismatic Society
  • City Bowl Ratepayers and Residents Association (CIBRA)
  • Limpopo Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (LIHRA)
  • Mpumalanga Heritage
  • Cape Town Family History Society
  • Cannon Association of South Africa (CAOSA)
  • The Empathy Lab
  • Craig McClenaghan Architecture
  • Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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