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  • Lion Battery - The Russians and the Noon Gun

From our Archive

  • Iconic Rotunda being vandalised
  • Blue Plaque celebrates Freemasons Hall, Parktown
  • End of an era for historic mining firm
  • Oscar Wilhelm Alric Forssman - Wealthy man who suffered devastating losses
  • Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker, and Imperial Delhi
  • Forbidden Images (1960s to 1980s) - Illegal photographs captured by young men conscripted into the South African Military
  • Adam De Smidt - Gentlemanly Engineer in a tough environment
  • Over four thousand traditional Zulu artefacts digitised
  • Old Malmesbury Mission Church Complex - A question of sustainability
  • Unpacking the history behind this 1919 Ravenscroft photograph
  • The only known 'Herbert Baker' house in Kensington
  • The remarkable life of Charlotte Maxeke
  • Caring for the Dead at Modder River and Magersfontein
  • Dorkay House hangs on
  • The mystery of the goat-horned Ndebele ‘doll’ at the Wits Art Museum (WAM)

From the Directory

  • Lennie Gouws - Researcher and Author
  • Verulam Historical Society
  • Glassworks
  • Historic Building Consultants
  • Ulwazi Programme
  • Amafa / Heritage KwaZulu Natal
  • Roodt Architects
  • Susan Jean Taylor
  • Peter Glendinning
  • Johan van Heerden - Researcher
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