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Karoo

  • Tracing Cape Rebels from Colesberg to Uniondale
  • Visiting historic Hanover via Springfontein
  • Railway Archaeology in the Great Karoo: Dwyka - Antjieskraal - Ketting
  • Soap Houses of the Karoo
  • Station Life in the Karoo in the Early 1900s

From our Archive

  • Some early Piquetberg farms illustrated by Johannes Cornelius Poortermans
  • Rosendal - A townhouse complex in the Highveld vernacular
  • Thomas Charles John Bain - One of South Africa's greatest engineers
  • A priceless Joburg archive - Q&A with Lucille Davie
  • Border Cave finds confirm cultural practices
  • Fort Pine - Place of refuge after the battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift
  • Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer: A Life Beyond the Coelacanth
  • Surviving sites from the 1922 Rand Revolt
  • Mai Mai Market - 'The Place of Healers'
  • Government Avenue Cape Town - South Africa's oldest pedestrian thoroughfare
  • Registrar in Trouble - Saving the life of an anti-apartheid activist
  • The Unbuilt Kimberley Nymphaeum
  • World Heritage Committee concerned about climate change
  • A paper on the origins of the original Witwatersrand Gold Fields with special reference to the Witwatersrand Ridge
  • Old Park Station - A heritage site of exceptional significance comes alive again!

From the Directory

  • Johan van Heerden - Researcher
  • Kate Otten Architects
  • Simon Green - Anglo-Boer War Expert
  • Ubique Heritage Consultants
  • Historical Society of Port Elizabeth
  • South African National Society (SANS)
  • Friends of Alberts Farm
  • Andy Selfe - Millwright
  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
  • Muckleneuk Lukasrand Property Owners and Residents Association (MLPORA)
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