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Houghton

  • Unique bus shelter restored and celebrated
  • Houghton, Orange Grove, Killarney, Mayfair and Greenside get blue plaques!
  • Mourning the loss of a Lower Houghton landmark
  • A hundred years ago: St John’s College, Johannesburg, in 1920
  • The Hidden History of Mount Carmel
  • Harrow Road stonework in Houghton - The wall built by Barnett Lobel
  • Three Historic Johannesburg Passes
  • Houghton was nearly a Mining Township

From our Archive

  • Looking back at the opening of Mapungubwe National Park
  • A Novelist in Hermanus
  • The Missing Hours at Isandlwana
  • Reflections on the end of World War I and the impact of war
  • Plaque commemorates the final battle of the Rand Revolt
  • Tait House Benoni Inspires
  • Crack Trains of South Africa - Then and Now
  • Visiting historic Hanover via Springfontein
  • A short history of the Irene Concentration Camp Cemetery
  • German War Graves in South Africa
  • A Secret Sea Chart Revealed
  • Surveying the Confidence Reef Mine
  • Johannesburg's First Air Conditioned Building
  • The Mining Link Connecting Simon van der Stel to Herbert Hoover
  • Old Town Halls Never Die

From the Directory

  • South African Military History Society
  • Rod Kruger - Gold Mining Talks and Tours
  • FCTEC
  • Heritage Association of South Africa (HASA)
  • Cindy Postlethwayt Heritage Consultant
  • South African Society of Archivists
  • Save our Berea
  • First Nation Cobuqua Indigenous Chapter
  • Durban Walking Tours
  • Treasure Karoo Action Group (TKAG)
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