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Past Masters Series

  • William Brounger and the Cape Railways
  • Hermann Schutte - Designer of South Africa's First Lighthouse
  • Louis Michel Thibault - Ex-Mercenary whose Heritage Enriched the Cape
  • James Cameron - Second City Engineer of Cape Town
  • John Hamilton Wicksteed - The competent young engineer who came to a sad end
  • James Bisset - Bringing Mass Transport to the Suburbs
  • George Pauling - Leading railway contractor in the development of Southern Africa
  • Thomas Stewart - First South African Consulting Engineer
  • John Gamble - Maths Prodigy who Preferred Engineering
  • Sir John Coode - International Harbour Master
  • John Frederick Bourne - Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy
  • Richard Thomas Hall - Railwayman in a Remote Part of the Colony
  • Patrick Fletcher - Versatile Pioneer
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • John Scott Tucker - Ineffective Official who Abolished his own Post
  • Charles Davidson Bell - Renaissance Man at the Cape
  • George Pilkington - The Elderly Gentleman Who Kept up The Good Work
  • Thomas Charles John Bain - One of South Africa's greatest engineers
  • Murrell Robinson Robinson - Dedicated Public Servant
  • Henry Fancourt White - Pass-builder Remembered by Golfers

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From our Archive

  • Joburg's Khoisan ancestors
  • The Pink Buildings Saga - Six Months On
  • Johannesburg panoramas – a tour of note with Chipkin and Munro
  • One day back in '63 at Liliesleaf
  • Wits University Gold Medal awarded to Herbert Prins
  • John Montagu - Administrator Who Made Things Happen
  • The General Hendrik Schoeman Enigma - Visionary, Villain or Victim?
  • A Monument to South African Friendship - Gandhi and Kallenbach
  • Rediscovering a Herbert Baker House in the heart of Yeoville
  • Johannesburg in postcards 1904-08
  • Memories of Grand Prix Racing in Johannesburg in the 1930s
  • Isandlwana's Forgotten V.C.
  • Modernist Icon Shimmers above Joburg once more
  • The Fascinating History of Randburg
  • Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer: A Life Beyond the Coelacanth

From the Directory

  • Lucille Davie - Jozi Tours and Tales
  • Cape Town Heritage Trust (CTHT)
  • Cape's Threatened Buildings
  • NGT Infraco
  • Andy Selfe - Millwright
  • South African Athletics Heritage Group
  • James Findlay Collectable Books & Antique Maps
  • Old Wynberg Village Society
  • Mpumalanga Institute of Architects (MPIA)
  • Border Historical Society
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