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Braamfontein

  • Clara Goad - The Story Behind One of the Earliest Graves in Braamfontein Cemetery
  • Re-imagining the Planetarium as the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome
  • Mystery of Braamfontein's arched grave solved!
  • The reinterment of the remains of the first (and last) Consul General of the Ottoman Empire posted to South Africa
  • Solving the Mystery Behind "Grannie's Grave" in Braamfontein Cemetery
  • The Story Behind the 1922 Rand Revolt Centenary Stone
  • Student in Trouble - Protesting against Apartheid in the 1950s
  • Two cemetery buildings illegally demolished
  • Much More than a Mafia: Mavericks, Mentors, and Medical Maestros. The considerable contribution of St John’s College to Medicine
  • The mystery of the goat-horned Ndebele ‘doll’ at the Wits Art Museum (WAM)
  • Radar at Wits: South Africa’s development of radar within three months in World War II
  • Attempted Assassination at Rand Show
  • Wits has not destroyed the old showground of Milner Park
  • Old, New and Newest in Braamfontein
  • Blue plaques unveiled on historic Solomon Street workers compounds
  • The search for Enoch Sontonga
  • The Poster Age, 1968-1972 - Plastering the Campus red and blue and black
  • In conversation with Jan van Wijk - The refurbishment of the Rembrandt Gallery, Wits University
  • The Johannesburg Way of Death - The History of the Johannesburg Crematorium
  • Wits Art Museum waits, excitedly

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From our Archive

  • Attempted Assassination at Rand Show
  • Latent South African Visual History - Magic lantern slides
  • Exploring the Syringa Tree
  • The Dube Story
  • The Day Krugersdorp Received a Magnificent Tower Clock
  • A few memories of Indian Elephants at the Joburg Zoo
  • Health Care workers who died from Spanish Flu
  • Visiting the Historic Primrose Cemetery (Germiston)
  • Robben Island Garrison Church - Costly restoration goes horribly wrong
  • Early Panoramic Johannesburg
  • Remembering the First Trans-Africa Flight
  • Gone but not forgotten - The landmark Barlow Fountain
  • Sir William Hoy (1868-1930) - His life beyond Hermanus
  • Building Africa's Tallest Building - The Leonardo, Sandton
  • Billy Monk was a Loaded Gun - A Treasure Trove of Photographs of Cape Town in the 1960s

From the Directory

  • Tsica Heritage Consultants
  • Johan van Heerden - Researcher
  • Upper Houghton Residents Association (UHRA)
  • African Conservation Trust (ACT)
  • New Killarney-Riviera Association (NKRA)
  • Africa Media Online
  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
  • Van Plettenberg Historical Society
  • Louwkul Design Lab
  • Kensington Heritage Trust
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