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  • Blood Sweat and Beers - The Story of the Railway Navvy

From our Archive

  • Merther, Minerals & Migrations - Three generations of the Lavin family
  • Going Inside the Kensington Castle
  • Wanton destruction of a blue plaque is to be deplored - City of Joburg to the rescue
  • The Queens Road Commune - Living in a grand Parktown mansion in the 1970s
  • Locating the Victims of the 1922 Rand Revolt
  • The English Language in South Africa
  • Probably the earliest record of Ndebele wall decoration I have discovered to date
  • The Tickey – a legendary South African Coin
  • Attempted Assassination at Rand Show
  • Why build a majestic villa here?
  • Irving Lissoos - coming of age in Jewish Johannesburg
  • Kenneth Stanley Birch – born in 1914, Johannesburg memorialist
  • When Johannesburg became a City!
  • A Rotten Place to Die
  • The History of Witkoppen School

From the Directory

  • Durban Walking Tours
  • Emmett Architects
  • First Nation Cobuqua Indigenous Chapter
  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
  • Knysna Ratepayers Association (KRA)
  • South African Heritage Resource Agency (SAHRA)
  • Michael Hart Architects & Urban Designers
  • Mike Kantey
  • The Heritage Foundation (Die Erfenisstigting)
  • Kommetjie Heritage Society
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