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Wits University

  • Student in Trouble - Protesting against Apartheid in the 1950s
  • Obituary for Clive Michael Chipkin
  • Much More than a Mafia: Mavericks, Mentors, and Medical Maestros. The considerable contribution of St John’s College to Medicine
  • Radar at Wits: South Africa’s development of radar within three months in World War II
  • Wits has not destroyed the old showground of Milner Park
  • Old, New and Newest in Braamfontein
  • Wits University Gold Medal awarded to Herbert Prins
  • The Poster Age, 1968-1972 - Plastering the Campus red and blue and black
  • Phillip Tobias, the mensch
  • 16 300 books... and counting
  • Origins and Architecture of the William Cullen Library at Wits
  • The Nunnery at Wits - Created in a Weekend and Still Going Strong

From our Archive

  • The Controversial Naming of Sandton
  • The History of Sizwe (formerly Rietfontein) Hospital
  • John Scott Tucker - Ineffective Official who Abolished his own Post
  • The Heritage Portal in numbers (October 2019)
  • On tour with judge Albie Sachs
  • Mai Mai Market - 'The Place of Healers'
  • The Brass Bell of the SS Mendi has been returned
  • The Achmat Dangor Legacy Project – celebrating the extraordinary life of a prolific writer and champion for truth, justice and equality
  • Tintypes - The poor man’s photograph
  • The Early History of Boksburg
  • Neil Fraser - reclamation champion
  • Modern British-Built Trams for Johannesburg’s British Empire Exhibition in 1936
  • William Smith: Educator
  • Face to Face with the Taung Child
  • The fate of one Dutch noble line in the Cape Colony 

From the Directory

  • Muizenberg Heritage
  • Friends of Johannesburg Cemeteries
  • Friends of the Vredefort Dome World Heritage Site
  • Historic Building Consultants
  • Ubique Heritage Consultants
  • Prof Walter Peters - Architect & Heritage Practitioner
  • Heritage Monitoring Project (HMP)
  • Glassworks
  • McGregor Heritage Society
  • Northern Cape Provincial Heritage Authority
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