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Cape Town

  • The Audience in the Room: Who is Cape Town's Cultural Heritage For?
  • Iran and South Africa: Naval Interactions of the 1970s
  • Three Remarkable Women: A Cape Town Family's Journey from VOC Origins to Australian Gold Rush
  • A Rare View of Cape Town: The 1818 Choris Lithograph
  • How a Jewellery Theft Shaped South African Contract Law
  • The Anderson Family of Winchester Mansions
  • Simonstown: A Victorian Photo Album dissected 160 years later
  • Early photo evidence brings closure following tragic death at sea
  • Victorian-era Brothel Tokens of South Africa
  • William Brounger and the Cape Railways
  • He changed the shape of the Cape coast
  • Hermann Schutte - Designer of South Africa's First Lighthouse
  • Louis Michel Thibault - Ex-Mercenary whose Heritage Enriched the Cape
  • James Cameron - Second City Engineer of Cape Town
  • James Bisset - Bringing Mass Transport to the Suburbs
  • Thomas Stewart - First South African Consulting Engineer
  • Sir John Coode - International Harbour Master
  • John Frederick Bourne - Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy
  • Finding Job Maseko - It is not Masego, it is Maseko
  • Charles Davidson Bell - Renaissance Man at the Cape

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From our Archive

  • Visiting the Historic Palmietkuil South War Cemetery
  • Brian McKechnie: heritage, passion and cars
  • Arthur Edward Green - Soldier, hunter, engineer, traveller & amateur photographer
  • Some memories of Rosebank in 1966
  • An Unusual 1954 Railway Map of South Africa
  • Norscot Manor - Built on a scale few could afford today!
  • Botched South African amateur snapshots (1920s - 1940s)
  • The Old Synagogue in the Gardens
  • Response to “Heritage house owners should be compensated by a property tax cut”
  • Victorian-era Banknotes of Towns of the South Western Cape
  • Charles Jasper Selwyn - Military Engineer who left his mark on the Eastern Cape
  • Gordon Verhoef & Krause - Adverts over the years
  • The Laurels - A Piece of Mooi River History
  • South Africa mourns a heritage champion
  • A horologist, but much more

From the Directory

  • StudioJoy + Architects and Heritage Practitioners
  • Knysna Ratepayers Association (KRA)
  • NGT Infraco
  • Ruth Muller Archivist / Researcher
  • Historic Building Consultants
  • Friends of Johannesburg Cemeteries
  • Boksburg and East Rand Historical Association
  • Durbanville Heritage Society (DHS)
  • Liana Jansen - Landscape Architect & Professional Heritage Practitioner
  • Dr Anna Trapido - Indigenous and Heritage Food Specialist
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