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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

  • East London's Father of Photography - Osborne Morley (1850-1926)
  • A Brief History of Parkview
  • Inner City Snapshot - November 2016
  • Who was the Corlett in Corlett Drive?
  • No other building materials have advanced the built environment as much as steel and concrete
  • "I knew in that instant that my life on the run was over" - The capture of Nelson Mandela 5 August 1962
  • Louis Michel Thibault - Ex-Mercenary whose Heritage Enriched the Cape
  • Another brick in the wall – forgotten Kirkness bricks and fireplaces at the UNISA Sunnyside campus
  • Killarney is stylish living
  • Oblowitz's Bioscope and the Adelphi Cinema: Film in Hermanus: 1906-1981
  • Inside Sutton Place Sandton
  • Historic Bookplates from Southern African Institutional Libraries
  • The Bokoni of Mpumalanga
  • Johannesburg Heritage Foundation -  2019 achievements and the year ahead 
  • Tiger Brands Heritage in Danger

From the Directory

  • Architects Boers Associates
  • Vernon Systems
  • Kalk Bay Historical Association
  • Cape Town Heritage Trust (CTHT)
  • Joint Plans Committee (JPC)
  • Hugh Fraser - Guided Tours
  • Upper Houghton Residents Association (UHRA)
  • Krugersdorp Heritage Association
  • Marc Latilla - Johannesburg Researcher
  • Historical Time Lines
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