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  • The mystery of the Penn Symons flag

From our Archive

  • Iran and South Africa: Naval Interactions of the 1970s
  • Bez Valley War Memorial to be moved
  • William Brounger and the Cape Railways
  • A short history of Mamre's Moravian Mission Station
  • The Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe - Something to chew on
  • The Eiffel Tower - Denounced, Accepted, Revered
  • Modern British-Built Trams for Johannesburg’s British Empire Exhibition in 1936
  • They wanted to demolish the Durban Railway Station
  • The 1960 Coalbrook Disaster
  • A poignant Royal souvenir from Bloemfontein
  • The contested but pivotal legacy of missionary education in South Africa
  • New publication highlights Africa’s remarkable geology
  • Henri Ferdinand Gros - Pretoria’s first permanently based photographer, 1875 to 1890
  • Surveying the Confidence Reef Mine
  • Hohenheim - The Life and Death of one of Johannesburg's Great Historic Homes

From the Directory

  • Collectors Treasury
  • St Ursula's Museum, Art Gallery & Research Centre
  • Muizenberg - Then and Now
  • Mira Fassler Kamstra - Retired
  • Friends of Johannesburg Cemeteries
  • Wheat Industry Museum
  • Sticky Situations
  • Discover Kaapsehoop
  • Hout Bay and Llandudno Heritage Trust
  • South African Athletics Heritage Group
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  • Where to for the Groote Schuur Collection? Absence, Inheritance, and Possibility in Heritage Collections
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  • Volksrust (Llanwarne/Langwane) - A Transvaal Border Town Through the Eyes of a Deltiologist
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  • Peter Rich, Architect in Search of African Place-Making
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