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  • Thomas Baines - The 'Eersteling' Sketches

From our Archive

  • Carl Bluhm's contribution to early Eastern Cape photography - A career tragically cut short
  • The man behind one of South Africa's largest private photographic collections - Q&A with Carol Hardijzer
  • Death by drowning, the tragedy of the SS Mendi
  • South Africans shocked at destruction of PE Heritage
  • The fate of one Dutch noble line in the Cape Colony 
  • South Africa's Tallest Building in 1933
  • Three Books on the Black Death
  • The Preservation of Pimville Soweto
  • The path to one of the highest points in South Africa
  • Norscot Manor - Built on a scale few could afford today!
  • South Africa needs a Fred Dibnah
  • Step into a wagon and go back 200 years
  • Parkhurst House had enough explosives to ‘blow up Johannesburg’
  • The British Hit Parade Before the Beatles
  • What was Bloemfontein like in 1906?

From the Directory

  • Louwkul Design Lab
  • The Forge - Customized wrought metal work
  • Cannon Association of South Africa (CAOSA)
  • Van Biljon Barnardo Architects
  • ARCON Conservation Architects & Spatial Heritage Consultants
  • Ulwazi Programme
  • StudioJoy + Architects and Heritage Practitioners
  • Ancestors Research South Africa
  • Glassworks
  • Genealogical Society of South Africa (GSSA)
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