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Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa

  • A South African encyclopaedia - A worthy and dated work of reference and a collectable treasure

From our Archive

  • The Vergelegen Story Part Three - The Amfarms Restoration and Illustrious Guests
  • Memorial honours Cape slaves
  • City of Joburg honours the first national publication aimed solely at a black readership
  • An ode to Bra Fighter - A South African music connoisseur
  • Searching for the Zulu Mass Graves at Kambula
  • Inside Chadrien Place Sandton
  • William Brounger - Forward into the Interior
  • South African Pavement Photographs (1930s to 1960s) - A Nostalgic reflection
  • The Smallest Church in the Southern Hemisphere
  • The elevator gives the skyscraper a lift
  • Original 1913 blueprint of the Yeoville Water Tower unveiled
  • Johannesburg based artist’s 1960s photographic portfolio resurfaces
  • Raid, Rhodes, Railways, Rinderpest, Rebellion and Ruin
  • Racing in the shadows of mine dumps: Black African cycle sport on South Africa's gold mines in the apartheid era
  • The Day Krugersdorp Received a Magnificent Tower Clock

From the Directory

  • Franco Frescura Heritage Consultants
  • Historic Bathurst
  • South African Military History Society
  • Urban and Rural Exploration
  • South East Witwatersrand Family History Society (SEWFHS)
  • Williams Cultural Management (WCM)
  • Historical Time Lines
  • Heritage Mossel Bay
  • ARCON Conservation Architects & Spatial Heritage Consultants
  • Braamfontein Spruit Trust
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