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  • The Saga of the planned major SAR & H Museum that never was
  • Henry Fancourt White - Pass-builder Remembered by Golfers
  • Charles Cornwallis Michell - The Father of Civil Engineering in South Africa
  • Iconic Kaaimans River Railway Bridge Declared a Provincial Heritage Site
  • Blockhouses of the South African War
  • The Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe - Something to chew on
  • Streaks of Rust Across the Veld - The Demise of the Branch Lines
  • What are the Oldest Towns in South Africa?

From our Archive

  • Beyond the Narrative of Decay: The Real Story of Young Avenue, Upper Houghton
  • The Colosseum - From a Cinema Fantasy of the Thirties to Modern apartment living in Johannesburg
  • Refurbishing the Muizenberg Carnegie Library and Post Office
  • Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Report - December 2012
  • South Africa's Tallest Building in 1933
  • The Missionary Beginnings of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
  • Newtown Workers' Compound commemorates municipal workers
  • Blockhouses of the South African War
  • Kathy Munro visits one of the top libraries in the world!
  • The Capture of Winston Churchill - The Armoured Train Incident
  • Tributes pour in for Marian Laserson
  • Our lost Lowveld farm
  • A Brief History of Windybrow
  • Frans Beleni – underground man
  • Patrick Fletcher - Versatile Pioneer

From the Directory

  • Heritage Mossel Bay
  • HP Architects & Heritage Architects
  • The Conservation Studio - Albany Museum
  • Old Wynberg Village Society
  • Constantia Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association
  • South African Museum Association (SAMA)
  • South African Military History Society
  • Bibliophile
  • Clare Chappel Urban Designer, Architect, Storyteller
  • Limpopo Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (LIHRA)
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