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  • Shipwreck Gold Coins from South Africa
  • The Tragic Fate of the Great Ship Sao Joao
  • Valuable octant found on beach

From our Archive

  • An unusual little book revealing Johannesburg in 1949
  • The Tickey – a legendary South African Coin
  • Century old photographs reveal the story of James Gribble, Paarl based photographer
  • The 1913 Land Act
  • The Churches of Parkview
  • DocuFest Africa - Showcasing rare and unusual images of life in South Africa during Apartheid
  • Tributes pour in for Marian Laserson
  • Why was there an explosion of towers in Johannesburg in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
  • Alexandra Park – the lost green heart of Potchefstroom
  • Visual Reflection on Pretoria’s early places of Worship - 1857 to the end of the 1920s
  • The Krugersdorp Central Post Office
  • STEEL, When Iron Came of Age
  • Who was the Douglas in Douglasdale?
  • Wits has not destroyed the old showground of Milner Park
  • The Buildings of C. H. Thrupp and Company over the Decades

From the Directory

  • De Rust Heritage Trust
  • Alberton Heritage Society
  • Provincial Heritage Resources Authority Gauteng (PHRAG)
  • Estelle Liebenberg-Barkhuizen - Paper Conservator
  • Parkview Residents Association (PRA)
  • Historical Association of South Africa (HASA)
  • South African Cannon Association (SACA)
  • Mpumalanga Heritage
  • Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa (VASSA)
  • Mandela Bay Heritage Trust (MBHT)
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