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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

  • Jan Smuts and the Indweans
  • Dr Willem Henri Jacobus Punt: South African Heritage Pioneer (26/04/1900 - 22/05/1981)
  • The Fall of Pretoria, June 1900
  • Port Elizabeth - An Abridged History of an Apartheid City
  • Delight at discovering a hidden aspect of Johannesburg - imPRESSed Craft Bindery Letterpress and Studio
  • John Hamilton Wicksteed - The competent young engineer who came to a sad end
  • On the lighter side - Some funny and peculiar South African vintage photographs
  • Old National Monument Badges and Plaques Under Threat
  • Major loss for the Donkin Heritage Trail
  • South Africa’s most unlikely export
  • Only this cemetery remains as a stark reminder of an uprooted community
  • Battlefields Route – Koppies to Kroonstad
  • South Africa's Road to Nowhere
  • Diamond Smugglers' Aircraft on a Deserted Beach - Unravelling the story around discarded crime scene photographs
  • The Preservation of the Provincial Building

From the Directory

  • Kensington Residents and Ratepayers Association (KRRA)
  • Ship Society
  • Durban Walking Tours
  • Benoni - History Now & Then
  • Johannesburg Urban Forest Alliance (JUFA)
  • Emmett Architects
  • KZN Family History Society
  • Parktown Association
  • Durbanville Heritage Society (DHS)
  • Ursula Rigby Architect & Professional Heritage Practitioner
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