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Retail History

  • 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
  • The fascinating story behind one of Sandton's oldest shops
  • Hunting for Rivonia's First Shop
  • The Men who Made OK Bazaars

From our Archive

  • Taking care of the family silver...
  • Peers the Artist - In search of Charles Ernest Peers (Part 2)
  • Visiting the Historic Primrose Cemetery (Germiston)
  • Travelling along our National Roads
  • Looking back on the restoration of the majestic Reserve Bank Building
  • Forgotten Railway Sidings of the South Peninsula
  • City of Joburg honours the first national publication aimed solely at a black readership
  • My trip through Africa in the early 1970s
  • Tracing Cape Rebels from Colesberg to Uniondale
  • A Secret Sea Chart Revealed
  • Recording Memories – Camera in hand A Philosophical Reflection
  • A short history of one the Cape's earliest freehold farms
  • The Origins of the Chavonnes Battery
  • A short sharp history of the Marikana Railway Station, est. 1910
  • First Heritage Plaques Unveiled in Modderfontein

From the Directory

  • African Conservation Trust (ACT)
  • Durbanville Heritage Society (DHS)
  • South African Society of Archivists
  • Durban Walking Tours
  • Dr Graham Dominy
  • Peter Glendinning
  • Quagga Rare Books & Art
  • Johannesburg Heritage Foundation (JHF)
  • Les Pivnic
  • Lepogo La Thaba Adventures
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