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Cape Town

  • Billy Monk was a Loaded Gun - A Treasure Trove of Photographs of Cape Town in the 1960s
  • Unpacking the history behind this 1919 Ravenscroft photograph
  • The Forgotten Biscuit King
  • SAHRA meets the Bo-Kaap
  • My Caving Story including the survey of the Cango Caves - Helen Berrisford
  • Visiting the Historic Simon’s Town Old Burying Ground
  • Visiting the oldest extant cemetery in South Africa
  • Meet Lady Anne Barnard
  • Summer holidays, Sunshine, Swimwear, Suntan lotion and Sand buckets - South African Beach Photographers (1930s to 1960s)
  • Markhams Building and the Cape Town Connection
  • Brunel's Big Idea and the South African Connection
  • Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Part 3)
  • Memorial honours Cape slaves
  • Where to from here... 20 Years of the National Heritage Resources Act
  • The Old Synagogue in the Gardens
  • Commemorating Sir Herbert Baker's last building in South Africa
  • Five Sneaky Blue Plaques
  • Mariendahl Brewery - One of South Africa's finest industrial monuments
  • Remembering Old Claremont Cape Town
  • JC Munro - Pretoria's longest serving photographer during the turn of the 20th century

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From our Archive

  • Visiting the Historic Middelburg Cemetery (Mpumalanga)
  • Parkhurst House had enough explosives to ‘blow up Johannesburg’
  • Tracing Cape Rebels from Colesberg to Uniondale
  • Blockhouses of the South African War
  • The Heritage Portal in numbers (October 2019)
  • 99 Years of the Ultimate Human Race: A Journey through Comrades History
  • A Short History of the SA Dagger
  • A walking tour of historic Calvinia
  • Brief History of St Ursula’s School
  • From Dortmund with Love - The Yeoville Water Tower in Johannesburg, 1913-1914
  • Twists and turns in the tale of a clock
  • South Africa’s Photographic Salon Entries - Past and Present
  • Charles Davidson Bell - Renaissance Man at the Cape
  • The Great Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  • Johannesburg celebrates its 130th birthday!

From the Directory

  • Observatory Civic Association (OCA)
  • Ladysmith Siege Museum Trust
  • Ulwazi Programme
  • Roodt Architects
  • Boksburg and East Rand Historical Association
  • Glassworks
  • Heritage Western Cape (HWC)
  • Andre Vercueil Consulting Architects & Heritage Practitioner
  • Kommetjie Heritage Society
  • Saxonwold and Parkwood Residents Association (SAPRA)
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