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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

  • Visiting the Historic Bultfontein Cemetery
  • A New Era Dawns - The first fifteen years of the South African Railways (SAR)
  • Berg River Water Supply to the West Coast - The Importance of Jantjiesfontein
  • Botched South African amateur snapshots (1920s - 1940s)
  • Perfect nuisance and as mad as a hatter - Rudolf Gottfried Steger, Pretoria based photographer from 1898-1919
  • The History of Panners Lane Sandton
  • From the Alps to the Highveld
  • The Preservation of Pimville Soweto
  • Aiton Court: Relocating Conservation between Poverty and Modern Idealism
  • A South African Prequel to Downton Abbey
  • Potch pets in old pictures
  • The tree with the most historic significance in old Nelspruit
  • Visiting the Historic Harrismith Cemetery
  • Confessions of a Collector of Heritage Maps
  • Our City Fathers ought to be Protecting and Defending Joubert Park

From the Directory

  • Old Wynberg Village Society
  • Vidamemoria Heritage Consultants
  • Melville Residents Association (MRA)
  • Lepogo La Thaba Adventures
  • African Pictures
  • Inclusive Design Company
  • Pam McLaren - Female Ancestry British Kaffaria & Natal
  • Archival Platform
  • Erasmus Fairbairn Architects
  • Beyond Heritage
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