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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

  • The great Kruger National Park gold heist that no one is talking about
  • A Remarkable Journey Inside the Johannesburg City Hall (Gauteng Legislature)
  • The Lost World of Denver Station
  • Railways at War
  • Heroic Efforts to Save the Kimberley City Hall
  • Houghton, Orange Grove, Killarney, Mayfair and Greenside get blue plaques!
  • Early Middelburg through the eyes of two deltiologists
  • Hunter and hunted photographed - Early South African hunting photographs (1860s to 1910)
  • Irving Lissoos - coming of age in Jewish Johannesburg
  • The Famous Foundation Stone without its Building
  • The Kruger Houses at Boekenhoutfontein
  • A Brief History of Roads in South Africa - In the Beginning
  • The Architectural and Historical Significance of the Markhams Building
  • Historic Krugersdorp West Church Faces Demolition
  • Probably the earliest record of Ndebele wall decoration I have discovered to date

From the Directory

  • Roodt Architects
  • South African Heritage Resource Agency (SAHRA)
  • Glassworks
  • StudioJoy + Architects and Heritage Practitioners
  • Tshwane Building Heritage
  • Simon's Town Historical Society
  • The Empathy Lab
  • Vidamemoria Heritage Consultants
  • Stephanie Victor
  • Yeoville and Bellevue Ratepayers Association
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