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Stories from Joburg in the early 2000s

  • Madoda Tshabalala – the taxi driver we love to hate
  • Ravi Lalla - pillar to post to prosperity in Jeppestown
  • Frans Beleni – underground man
  • Flo Bird - house by house, street by street
  • Charles Rhangani Furumele - meeting ends for the children
  • Kenneth Stanley Birch – born in 1914, Johannesburg memorialist
  • Melanie Yap - Chinese voice
  • The easy life of Doris Mosikele
  • Irving Lissoos - coming of age in Jewish Johannesburg
  • Ken Boffard - wrestling the Grim Reaper
  • Clive Chipkin - ‘No coherence!’
  • The Klass Brothers - seven storeys of cultural history
  • Mervyn King - man who sets the rules
  • Ronel Bischoff - woman in charge
  • Neil Fraser - reclamation champion
  • Joburg personalities from the first decade of the 21st century

From our Archive

  • Hunter and hunted photographed - Early South African hunting photographs (1860s to 1910)
  • A Little Church in the Veld
  • Port Elizabeth - An Abridged History of an Apartheid City
  • Where else can you cross paths with Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi in one day?
  • The Kimberley Memorial to the Honoured Dead - Cecil Rhodes, Herbert Baker, and the Architecture of Memory
  • Great Mechanical Engineers of the South African Railways & Harbours (Part 1)
  • My Caving Story including the survey of the Cango Caves - Helen Berrisford
  • Jan Christian Smuts 1870 - 1950
  • Who was the Corlett in Corlett Drive?
  • The South African Footprint in Parliament Square, London
  • Giuseppe Maniscalco's long walk from Ethiopia to South Africa
  • The History of Westcliff
  • Tracey’s Folly still stands proud
  • Visiting the Historic Britstown Cemetery
  • In Search of Napoleonic Treasure in the Karoo

From the Directory

  • Verulam Historical Society
  • Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa (ILASA)
  • South East Witwatersrand Family History Society (SEWFHS)
  • Jenna Mervis - Author and Museum Storyteller
  • Magaliesberg Association for Cultural Heritage (MACH)
  • Village Timber
  • Osmond Lange Architects
  • George Heritage Trust
  • Stellenbosch Interest Group
  • WIEW Architects
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