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Grahamstown

  • Charles Jasper Selwyn - Military Engineer who left his mark on the Eastern Cape
  • Kate’s Legacy - Seeking the family of an abandoned box of beautiful old photographs
  • The South African who gave the world the deep level underground railway
  • Joseph Kirkman's Missing Manuscript - Can the mystery now be put to rest?
  • The Blaauwkrantz Bridge Disaster
  • Digitising Kingswood College's Heritage
  • Finding the missing link in the Gold Fields Collection
  • 19th Century lettering on buildings
  • What are the Oldest Towns in South Africa?
  • The Restoration of Grahamstown's Old Gaol (in 1984)

From our Archive

  • History is not for the Sensitive - HASA comments on the Rhodes Statue Saga
  • Westcliff Stairs honoured with Blue Plaques
  • SAHRA meets the Bo-Kaap
  • Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Part 3)
  • Mills of the Cederberg
  • A short history of the gladius in the Ditsong Museum Collection
  • Melanie Yap - Chinese voice
  • Robert Sobukwe - The shaping of an Africanist at Healdtown Mission Institute
  • The Free State's Forgotten Railway Line
  • The Origins of William Nicol Drive
  • When a Provincial Heritage Site is so desecrated one must question how they should be protected
  • A Deeper Look at Johannesburg's New Street Names
  • Cape Colony Convict Stations and Road Construction Crews
  • Rising from the Ashes - The 1926 Restoration of Groot Constantia
  • Neil Fraser - reclamation champion

From the Directory

  • Cornelius Lehr Antiquarian Horologist
  • Friends of Kloofendal
  • Hardijzer Photographic Research Collection
  • South African Athletics Heritage Group
  • Muizenberg - Then and Now
  • Models n Maps
  • Heritage Western Cape (HWC)
  • Jeremy Hazell Universal Access Consultant
  • Irene Village Hall
  • Kensington Heritage Trust
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  • How the Village of Rhodes Became a Heritage Area
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