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  • Health Care workers who died from Spanish Flu
  • Three Books on the Black Death

From our Archive

  • The story of the largest elephant tusks to ever come out of Kenya
  • Tracey’s Folly still stands proud
  • Heritage Treasures of the South
  • The Mining Link Connecting Simon van der Stel to Herbert Hoover
  • Newtown Workers' Compound commemorates municipal workers
  • Wanooka a grand old place again (restored in 2010)
  • Slave Sales and Cape Town's Slave Tree Memorial
  • One of the most extraordinary archaeological and historical phenomena in Southern Africa
  • Remembering Chris van Wyk, Riverlea’s storyteller
  • When did Johannesburg first appear on a map?
  • Amazing places to view the Joburg skyline
  • Celebrating the remarkable life of Herbert Prins
  • Workmen Discover Hidden Steps and Centuries Old Post Office Stones in 1906
  • The 1912 super-athlete from South Africa – Kenneth McArthur
  • John Frederick Bourne - Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy

From the Directory

  • Heritage Mossel Bay
  • Peter Glendinning
  • Society of Bibliophiles in Cape Town
  • PHS Consulting
  • James Findlay Collectable Books & Antique Maps
  • Tulbagh Valley Heritage Foundation
  • Friends of the Knysna Libraries
  • ICOMOS SA
  • Friends of the Vredefort Dome World Heritage Site
  • Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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