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  • The search for gold in the Free State

From our Archive

  • Old Town House Greenmarket Square
  • One of the most remarkable fortification-building projects in the military history of South Africa (if not the world)
  • Five Lost Seven Remain: The Carnegie Libraries of South Africa
  • The fate of one Dutch noble line in the Cape Colony 
  • Finding the Original Witwatersrand Agricultural Show Grounds
  • Merther, Minerals & Migrations - Three generations of the Lavin family
  • A few photographs of Johannesburg at the turn of the 20th century
  • A Dutch Accolade from a Field Ambulance volunteer praising a Boer war officer
  • The Fascinating History of Randburg
  • “In Memoriam” - Significance of the photograph during the mourning process
  • Surveying the buildings of Paarl (in 1980)
  • Some early Piquetberg farms illustrated by Johannes Cornelius Poortermans
  • In conversation with Jan van Wijk - The refurbishment of the Rembrandt Gallery, Wits University
  • Remembering an Act of 'Utter Barbarism' in Port Elizabeth
  • Visiting one of the oldest pubs in Gauteng

From the Directory

  • Society of Bibliophiles in Cape Town
  • Joint Plans Committee (JPC)
  • LM Architects and Heritage Consultants
  • Simon's Town Historical Society
  • Italcotto Roofing
  • Susan Jean Taylor
  • Adroit Architects & Interiors
  • Western Cape Museum Educator Group
  • Glassworks
  • Free State Heritage Resources Authority (FSHRA)
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