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Simon van der Stel

  • The Mining Link Connecting Simon van der Stel to Herbert Hoover

From our Archive

  • The Queens Road Commune - Living in a grand Parktown mansion in the 1970s
  • South Africa’s most unlikely export
  • Phillip Tobias, the mensch
  • Gandhi's house for sale (sold in 2009)
  • Latent South African Visual History - Magic lantern slides
  • Hugh Lane's Vision for the Johannesburg Art Gallery
  • Newtown's Edwardian Lavatory survives against the odds
  • Wits Art Museum waits, excitedly
  • Springs - Art Deco's Love Child
  • Unanswered Questions 120 Years after the Great Braamfontein Dynamite Explosion
  • Henry Fancourt White - Pass-builder Remembered by Golfers
  • Things to see and do at Melville Koppies Nature Reserve and Joburg Heritage site
  • The Grange - The story of a famous farm in Griqualand West
  • Victorian-era Brothel Tokens of South Africa
  • Head of Heritage to Bow Out, Leaving a Joburg Legacy

From the Directory

  • GLH Architects
  • Brian McKechnie - Architect & Heritage Consultant
  • Joint Plans Committee (JPC)
  • Treasure Karoo Action Group (TKAG)
  • Heritage Mossel Bay
  • Dr Graham Dominy
  • Joint Plans Committee East
  • Friends of Johannesburg Cemeteries
  • The Workplace Agency
  • Heritage Potchefstroom Erfenis
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