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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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Upon the Eagle’s Wings - Healdtown Mission Institute and the struggle for South Africa’s freedom
Corrugated Irony - A Short History of the Tin Roof
Celebrating Flo Bird - 80 Years of a Remarkable Life
The Cullinan Diamond and other remarkable stones from the Premier / Cullinan Mine
Heroic Efforts to Save the Kimberley City Hall
From Dortmund with Love - The Yeoville Water Tower in Johannesburg, 1913-1914
A Deeper Look at Johannesburg's New Street Names
Rhodes Court Room, Lock-up and Post Office
The Naming of Johannesburg
On the lighter side - Some funny and peculiar South African vintage photographs
The Doctor and the Artilleryman
Unique Photographs from the Boer War
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Buildings over the Decades
Hector Pieterson gets his memorial
The Great Observatories of the Magaliesberg
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Kalk Bay St James Ratepayers and Residents Association
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Ancestors Research South Africa
Brian McKechnie - Architect & Heritage Consultant
Architects Boers Associates
Benoni - History Now & Then
Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa (VASSA)
Modderfontein Conservation Society
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