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Walking Tours

  • The Historical Muizenberg / St. James Walk
  • A walking tour of historic Calvinia
  • Destination Hillbrow - celebrating walking, living and heritage

From our Archive

  • The Peoples of the Magaliesberg - Robert Moffat, Missionary
  • Some West Coast Memorials and Monuments
  • Carl Bluhm's contribution to early Eastern Cape photography - A career tragically cut short
  • Victorian-era Brothel Tokens of South Africa
  • The Railway that put the World on Track
  • Roaming the Western Cape Rails
  • The Forgotten Orphans of the Anglo-Boer War: the Irene and Pietersburg Orphanages
  • Thomas Baines - The 'Eersteling' Sketches
  • The Tanzania - Zambia Railway
  • Brass Plaque reveals a history of a distinguished man and his architectural firm
  • Where else can you cross paths with Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi in one day?
  • Memories of the Killarney Film Studios
  • Where are the 'singing tomorrows' of the Freedom Charter?
  • Asian food snails in Zoo Lake - A living legacy of Chinese indentured labourers on the gold fields of 1904?
  • In the Footsteps of Captain Charles Michell - 3/60th Regiment (King's Royal Rifles)

From the Directory

  • Prof Walter Peters - Architect & Heritage Practitioner
  • Hermanus History Society
  • African Conservation Trust (ACT)
  • Clydesdale Village Association
  • Friends of Horwoods Farm
  • Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • James Ball - Heritage Portal Founder
  • Simon Green - Anglo-Boer War Expert
  • Tsimba Archaeological Footprints
  • ICOM-SA
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