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Modderfontein

  • Modderfontein's Grand Mansion
  • William English - From Trapper Boy to Toff
  • The Bird Calendar 1940-2020 - A short history, including a question and a real-life mystery
  • 16 300 books... and counting
  • First Heritage Plaques Unveiled in Modderfontein
  • Unanswered Questions 120 Years after the Great Braamfontein Dynamite Explosion
  • From the Alps to the Highveld
  • The House that Dynamite Built

From our Archive

  • "A Great City Deserves Great Cathedrals"
  • A few photographs of Johannesburg at the turn of the 20th century
  • Knysna Gold - How it all started
  • An elegant lady photographed - Hildagonda Johanna Duckitt (1839 to 1905)
  • Sandton's Forgotten Monument
  • Raw material for the study of the transition from Boer administration to colonial British management
  • Stuttafords to be fashionable once again
  • Origins of the book 'District Six - Memories, Thoughts and Images'
  • The Tay Bridge Disaster
  • The Rebirth of the Germiston Carnegie Library
  • A Lone Hill of National Importance
  • Africa's first Wikipedia City
  • Simonstown: A Victorian Photo Album dissected 160 years later
  • A Remarkable Journey Inside the Johannesburg City Hall (Gauteng Legislature)
  • Forgotten Railway Sidings of the South Peninsula

From the Directory

  • Muckleneuk Lukasrand Property Owners and Residents Association (MLPORA)
  • Durban Art Deco Society
  • Historical Association of South Africa (HASA)
  • Eastern Cape Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (ECPHRA)
  • Joint Plans Committee (JPC)
  • Emmarentia Residents Association (ERA)
  • A J Renovatum
  • Amambatha Heritage Society (AHS)
  • Jim Hislop - Property Historian: Cape Town Property Histories
  • Joburg Places
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