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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

  • Probably the earliest record of Ndebele wall decoration I have discovered to date
  • A nation in 66 places: the national heritage sites of South Africa
  • William Brounger - Forward into the Interior
  • Herbert Baker honoured in Muizenberg
  • Carruthers and Frescura receive highest honour in the heritage community
  • A Rare View of Cape Town: The 1818 Choris Lithograph
  • A remarkable story of how a man feels about his home
  • Modernist Icon Shimmers above Joburg once more
  • Modderfontein's Grand Mansion
  • Pretoria Railway Station depicted on early Picture Postcards
  • History of the Old and New Grabouw Passes
  • Race to the Rand
  • Roaming the Western Cape Rails
  • Historical Photographs and the South African Law
  • The Last Man to Walk out of Delville Wood ... was a Dundee Man!

From the Directory

  • Pinelands History
  • South African Cannon Association (SACA)
  • ARCON Conservation Architects & Spatial Heritage Consultants
  • Ubique Heritage Consultants
  • Original Shoreline Project
  • Cindy Postlethwayt Heritage Consultant
  • Middelburg Karoo Tourism
  • Italcotto Roofing
  • De Rust Heritage Trust
  • South African Naval Heritage Trust (NHT)
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  • Limited edition set of six historic maps
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