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Sporting History

  • The Anderson Family of Winchester Mansions
  • Ian Hamilton Roberts Scott: Motor Racing Pioneer
  • Okey Lewis – Forgotten Olympic gold medal cyclist
  • The 1912 super-athlete from South Africa – Kenneth McArthur
  • Blue plaques celebrate historic sporting moments in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth)
  • Matters Piscatorial: Fishermen’s story of significance - The Lilliecrona Photo album
  • When the Lions Roared in 1974
  • Racing in the shadows of mine dumps: Black African cycle sport on South Africa's gold mines in the apartheid era
  • All Blacks in Hermanus Seventy Years Ago
  • Passionate about tennis - A South African photo album of historical significance (1909 - 1913)
  • The History of Soccer in Jozi
  • Sport and People of Cullinan
  • Soccer City: an architect’s dream
  • You say football I say soccer
  • ‘Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa’: Logan of Matjiesfontein
  • Why are there two codes of rugby?

From our Archive

  • The Krugersdorp Central Post Office
  • Delville Wood - The costliest action the South African Brigade fought on the Western Front
  • Looking back at the Woolff Restoration of the Donkin Row Houses
  • Forbidden Images (1960s to 1980s) - Illegal photographs captured by young men conscripted into the South African Military
  • The history and restoration of Harare's oldest house
  • A Remarkable Journey Inside the Johannesburg City Hall (Gauteng Legislature)
  • Where to from here... 20 Years of the National Heritage Resources Act
  • Dolobran mansion sits smugly among Baker's Joburg icons
  • Gandhi's house for sale (sold in 2009)
  • A short history of the Irene Concentration Camp Cemetery
  • We need to reclaim our Hillbrow tower
  • Saintly Sights - Pre 1900s Missionary Photography in South Africa - An Interview
  • The Contemporary Accounts of the Victorian Railways of Britain
  • William Roe (1827-1916) - Long serving Graaff-Reinet based photographer
  • Blue plaques unveiled on historic Solomon Street workers compounds

From the Directory

  • Mandela Bay Heritage Trust (MBHT)
  • Shortalogy
  • Bosele Tours Alexandra
  • Wynberg Residents and Ratepayers Association (WRRA)
  • Braamfontein Spruit Trust
  • Tsica Heritage Consultants
  • Border Historical Society
  • Dullstroom Heritage Society
  • Muckleneuk Lukasrand Property Owners and Residents Association (MLPORA)
  • Historic Building Consultants
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