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Van der Walt Cottage

  • A hidden gem in the heart of Fourways

From our Archive

  • Blue plaques and a new heritage route for Jeppe Boys
  • Joburg is ready for a raid
  • The Red Ox of Riebeek Kasteel
  • It’s a match! Early Tweddill photograph and portrait painting matched
  • New mosaic marks the site where the Bezuidenhout Valley War Memorial once stood
  • The Forgotten Biscuit King
  • The Royal Tour of 1901
  • Tracing the 1922 Strike
  • Digitising Kingswood College's Heritage
  • 2017 Most Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites in South Africa Announced 
  • Outsider Art
  • A secret heritage home on the Kensington ridge
  • Kippies, the club that wasn't there
  • The birth certificate of the Yeoville Water Tower
  • Uproar in the Cape - The Arrival of the Convict Ship Neptune in 1849

From the Directory

  • Ursula Rigby Architect & Professional Heritage Practitioner
  • Southern African Historical Society (SAHS)
  • Irene Village Hall
  • Pam McLaren - Female Ancestry British Kaffaria & Natal
  • Heritage Railway Association of South Africa (HRASA)
  • Association for Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA)
  • KEIM Mineral Paint and Plaster Systems of Southern Africa
  • Van Plettenberg Historical Society
  • Boksburg and East Rand Historical Association
  • Tsimba Archaeological Footprints
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