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Percy Fitzpatrick

  • The traditional ‘two minutes silence in remembrance’ was first observed in Cape Town
  • Nighttime at the Johannesburg Zoo (and some history)
  • Why we should observe Remembrance Day in South Africa

From our Archive

  • The Lion's Head Gold Mine
  • My Mission School Memories - Inanda Seminary
  • Johannesburg as seen through the eyes of a young schoolboy in the late 1940s, early 1950s and later as a young married man in the early 1960s
  • Was there life before Metrication?
  • Windybrow and Theodore Reunert
  • Perfect nuisance and as mad as a hatter - Rudolf Gottfried Steger, Pretoria based photographer from 1898-1919
  • Historical Conservation in South Africa - An Unmitigated Disaster?
  • The Battle of Nooitgedacht - The biggest battle fought in the Magaliesberg
  • Somerset West Loses an Iconic Heritage Building - The demolition of Blue Waters and the questions it leaves behind
  • The Weber Family at Driefontein Farm Sandton
  • A lifetime's obsession with Jock of the Bushveld
  • Walking Tour of Historic Paarl
  • Newtown Workers' Compound commemorates municipal workers
  • Welcome to Ladysmith, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
  • Café Bibles: Contemporary Photographic Africana - Photo-stories / Fotoverhale (1950s to 1980s)

From the Directory

  • Krugersdorp Heritage Association
  • African Pictures
  • Kensington Residents and Ratepayers Association (KRRA)
  • Ceres Rail Company
  • Old Wynberg Village Society
  • Tony Westby-Nunn
  • Tulbagh Valley Heritage Foundation
  • ICOMOS SA
  • RE: DIGITAL
  • Drakenstein Heritage Foundation (DHF)
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