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Royal Visit 1947

  • A Royal Rapport, How the Windsors met a Hohenzollern in Queenstown
  • That famous 21st Birthday broadcast from Cape Town... or was it?
  • The Royal Visit to Queenstown
  • A poignant Royal souvenir from Bloemfontein
  • Rediscovering the 1947 Royal Visit to South Africa

From our Archive

  • Knysna Gold - How it all started
  • Condemned Castle Cries for Help!
  • Chinese New Year Lights Up Johannesburg's Derrick Avenue in Cultural Spectacle
  • How Fort Mistake got its name
  • South Africa’s Three Photographers named Kisch (1863 – 1902)
  • Zonderwater - Almost certainly the Largest Allied POW Camp in the World
  • Embellishing an icon - Artists and the Union Buildings
  • The Lovely Lonehill Koppie
  • Visiting the Historic Rynsoord Benoni Cemetery
  • The Architectural and Historical Significance of the Markhams Building
  • Kenneth Stanley Birch – born in 1914, Johannesburg memorialist
  • Where to from here... 20 Years of the National Heritage Resources Act
  • Streaks of Rust Across the Veld - The Demise of the Branch Lines
  • Sappersrus and the War Memorial to the Sappers
  • Twenty-two ZAR employees in an antique photograph - An analysis of an 1893 Barberton image

From the Directory

  • Durban Walking Tours
  • Jeremy Hazell Universal Access Consultant
  • Pretoria Institute for Architecture (PIA)
  • Craig McClenaghan Architecture
  • Lesotho Heritage Network
  • Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand
  • Glassworks
  • Heritage House, Modderfontein
  • Southern African Historical Society (SAHS)
  • Hearth Heritage
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