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Oxwagons

  • Step into a wagon and go back 200 years

From our Archive

  • The history of the oldest continually lived in house North of the Orange River
  • Caring for the injured after the Johannesburg Station bombing
  • Houghton, Orange Grove, Killarney, Mayfair and Greenside get blue plaques!
  • A Short History of the Battles of Silkaatsnek
  • Looking back at the restoration of the Barbican Building
  • Old Town House Greenmarket Square
  • A swastika, Herbert Baker and the Pretoria Station
  • The story behind the South African Scottish Memorial
  • Joburg's oldest surviving bank building is coming back to life!
  • Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Pondoland, South Africa (Part 2)
  • Flo Bird - Joburg’s diminutive dynamite
  • Blue Plaque commemorates landmark home on the Linksfield Ridge
  • Carnarvon: not rock engravings but tree engravings!
  • Remarkable historic documents emerge at Hilton auction
  • The mega move of SAS Assegaai - Africa's first submarine museum

From the Directory

  • PGS Heritage
  • Historical Association of South Africa (HASA)
  • Amambatha Heritage Society (AHS)
  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
  • Wynberg Residents and Ratepayers Association (WRRA)
  • Kensington Heritage Trust
  • Cape Town Family History Society
  • Tulbagh Valley Heritage Foundation
  • The Workplace Agency
  • Digital Rail Images of South Africa (DRISA)
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