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Tributes and Obituaries

  • Obituary: Nicolas Bauman (1952-2025)
  • Go well Pat Rundgren - you were one of a kind
  • Michael Sutton - A hero became a friend
  • Michael Sutton is the reason that I chose to study Architecture
  • Michael Sutton - Brilliant architect who designed masterpieces in South Africa and Greece
  • The passing of Malcolm Freeland marked the end of an era of old Johannesburg
  • A tribute to Werner Kirchhoff - Surveyor of distinction and an early pioneer of South African satellite geodesy
  • A personal tribute to Marcus Holmes
  • A Celebration of the Life of Robert Rupert Forsyth
  • Tribute to Johannes (Johann) Jacobus Bruwer: 1954-2021
  • Obituary for Clive Michael Chipkin
  • Farewell to one of South Africa's great architects
  • Professor Revil John Mason 1929-2020
  • Tributes pour in for Marian Laserson
  • Celebrating the remarkable life of Herbert Prins
  • Clive Chipkin pays tribute to Robin Fee
  • Putting Joburg buildings before profits - The legacy of Robin Fee
  • The Heritage Community says farewell to a courageous and eccentric Johannesburg character
  • She took no prisoners and let no grass grow beneath her feet - Franco Frescura pays tribute to Helen Aron
  • South Africa mourns a heritage champion

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From our Archive

  • Oblowitz's Bioscope and the Adelphi Cinema: Film in Hermanus: 1906-1981
  • Photographs of Johannesburg in the late 1950s and early 1960s
  • Extraordinary Guide to South and East Africa on the eve of World War I
  • The History of Daventry Court
  • From Dortmund with Love - The Yeoville Water Tower in Johannesburg, 1913-1914
  • Maria Ratschitz Mission in the Wasbank Valley
  • Construction of Graaff-Reinet’s Van Ryneveld’s Pass Dam Wall (1920-1925) - Three photographic collections present a historic engineering narrative
  • Use of vintage photographs in narrating visual history - Beitbridge under construction (1928 – 1930)
  • Recording Memories – Camera in hand A Philosophical Reflection
  • Gordons Bay Coastal Defence Battery 1943
  • A priceless Joburg archive - Q&A with Lucille Davie
  • One of the most remarkable fortification-building projects in the military history of South Africa (if not the world)
  • The Historical Muizenberg / St. James Walk
  • Early mixed farming at the Broederstroom Archaeological Site
  • Looking back at the opening of Mapungubwe National Park

From the Directory

  • Clare Chappel Urban Designer, Architect, Storyteller
  • Durban Art Deco Society
  • Parktown Association
  • Genealogical Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • Gabriel Fagan Architects
  • Andre Bruton Construction
  • Shaw Badenhorst - Researcher
  • Louwkul Design Lab
  • Shortalogy
  • Keitumetse Mangate Production Company
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