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Mining History

  • Sending Radio Signals through Rock
  • An early South African Philaphotographologist - Frederick William Willis
  • Knysna Gold - How it all started
  • Coal mining and the Anglo Boer War 1899-1902
  • The Death of James Christie Grant
  • More gold comes from the southern half of Western Australia than from South Africa
  • The Richest Goldfield in the World turns 135
  • New Lease of Life for Giant Mining Stamp from 1886
  • William English - From Trapper Boy to Toff
  • The Epic March of 7 000 Zulu Workers
  • Cape Peninsular - Manganese Hikes and Mines
  • Diamond Smugglers' Aircraft on a Deserted Beach - Unravelling the story around discarded crime scene photographs
  • Alluvial Diamond Digging at Holpan
  • Frans Beleni – underground man
  • The first re-discovery of gold in the Transvaal
  • Kenneth Birch and his appreciation of the Witwatersrand Mining landscape
  • A short sharp history of the Marikana Railway Station, est. 1910
  • Racing in the shadows of mine dumps: Black African cycle sport on South Africa's gold mines in the apartheid era
  • The Gold Rushes of the Victorian Era
  • The search for gold in the Free State

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From our Archive

  • A Royal Rapport, How the Windsors met a Hohenzollern in Queenstown
  • The Nedbank Historical Collective - Exploring the oldest collective financial institution in South Africa - Part 2
  • Johannesburg's First Lift
  • A Memoir Rediscovered: Jan Smuts's Private Secretary
  • Who was the Corlett in Corlett Drive?
  • The history of one of the oldest bridges in Southern Africa
  • Kathy Munro visits the Joburg Firsts Exhibition
  • A new perspective on Johannesburg trams
  • The man who discovered the Sterkfontein Caves
  • Knysna Gold - How it all started
  • Africa's first Wikipedia City
  • A Brief History of Windybrow
  • Joburg gets a new online heritage system!
  • The War of 1812 - A needless war perhaps?
  • How Fort Mistake got its name

From the Directory

  • Port Alfred Ratepayers Association (PARRA)
  • The New Titanic Museum SA
  • Dr Dustin A Tusnovics Architect
  • Quagga Rare Books & Art
  • Limpopo Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (LIHRA)
  • Graeme Addison
  • Lareman Architects
  • Benoni - History Now & Then
  • Christison Rare Books
  • Upper Houghton Residents Association (UHRA)
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