Skip to main content
The Heritage Portal - Voice of South Africa's Heritage Community - Home Page
Menu
  • Home
    • Home
    • About us
    • Send us news and notices
  • Heritage Directory
    • Heritage Directory
    • About
    • Benefits
    • Join
    • Member features
  • Articles
  • Reviews
  • Threads
  • Blue Plaques
    • Blue Plaques
    • Add plaque
  • Newsletter
  • Donate

Towns and Cities

  • Kalk Bay Historical Association at 30 Years
  • How the Village of Rhodes Became a Heritage Area
  • Journal of a visit to the Gold Fields in 1889
  • Visiting historic Hanover via Springfontein
  • Visiting the Historic Village of Wakkerstroom
  • Malagas/Malgas and Joseph Barry
  • Sandton and Randburg 1939-1969 - Experiments in Local Government
  • A short sharp history of the Marikana Railway Station, est. 1910
  • Where there was gold there were photographers - Barberton Goldrush
  • Some Reminisces of Malmesbury
  • Johannesburg as seen through the eyes of a young schoolboy in the late 1940s, early 1950s and later as a young married man in the early 1960s
  • Sandton has History!
  • A stroll through the Heidelberg Kloof cemetery
  • Uitenhage's Evolution 1804-1910
  • Ouma keeps historic town alive
  • What was Boksburg like in 1903?
  • The Controversial Naming of Sandton
  • The Founding of Potchefstroom
  • The Early History of Boksburg
  • The Fascinating History of Randburg

Pagination

  • Current page 1
  • Page 2
  • Next page Next ›
  • Last page Last »

From our Archive

  • Potchefstroom railway station destroyed by fire
  • South Africa's newest African heritage and music museum
  • A nation in 66 places: the national heritage sites of South Africa
  • Kgosi Kgaswane and the Bakwena ba Modimosana ba Mmatau of the Tswana People
  • Visiting the Historic Palmietkuil South War Cemetery
  • Magistrates’ Courts – blasts, apartheid and art
  • Step into Victorian Joburg
  • Life at the National Trust
  • Ouma keeps historic town alive
  • Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker, and Imperial Delhi
  • Looking back at the opening of Mapungubwe National Park
  • The Rebirth of the Germiston Carnegie Library
  • What is the meaning of heritage?
  • Gordons Bay Coastal Defence Battery 1943
  • Modern Day Mystery - What has happened to the owner of the Kensington Castle?

From the Directory

  • Ladysmith Siege Museum Trust
  • Heritage Mossel Bay
  • Charles Thomas - Antique Furniture Restorers
  • KEIM Mineral Paint and Plaster Systems of Southern Africa
  • Durbanville Heritage Society (DHS)
  • Treasure Karoo Action Group (TKAG)
  • Beyond Heritage
  • Martin Hatchuel - Writer, Horticulturist and Tourism Consultant
  • GLH Architects
  • Morbid Musings - Marie-Louise Rouget
Search Directory

Recent Posts

  • Witnessing History - Correcting my memory of Hastings Ndlovu
    Article
  • Some Angel and Cherub Statues in Braamfontein Cemetery
    Article
  • Shipwrecks in False Bay and South Peninsula Coast: Commercial Ships
    Notice
  • Limited edition set of six historic maps
    Notice
  • Can anyone help me complete my run of Lantern?
    Notice
More Content

Many photos are submitted by heritage enthusiasts across the country. Please do not use these photos without permission from the copyright holder.

Burtronix: Enterprise Drupal Website Development

More Sites by Burtronix

  • Freight News
  • Wits Business School
  • www.gov.za
  • Travel News
  • Vuk'uzenzele
  • Wits School of Governance
  • Public Sector Manager
  • Tourism Update
  • EngineerIT
  • GCIS
  • SAnews
  • Energize