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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

  • Flo Bird - Joburg’s diminutive dynamite
  • Millbank - The Closest Historic Mill to Johannesburg
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • Visiting the historic St Paul’s Anglican Church and Graveyard
  • Wits has not destroyed the old showground of Milner Park
  • The man who discovered the Sterkfontein Caves
  • When did Johannesburg first appear on a map?
  • Q&A with Kathy Munro
  • The history of the oldest continually lived in house North of the Orange River
  • Clara Goad - The Story Behind One of the Earliest Graves in Braamfontein Cemetery
  • Why we should not waste effort maintaining this important heritage site
  • How the 'Snail in a Bottle Case' shaped South African Law
  • Hector's sister tells the story still
  • Forgotten Railway Sidings of the South Peninsula
  • Heritage Treasures of the South

From the Directory

  • Louwkul Design Lab
  • Limpopo Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (LIHRA)
  • GLH Architects
  • De Rust Heritage Trust
  • Tshwane Building Heritage
  • Booklovers Paradise
  • ICOM-SA
  • South African Military History Society
  • Western Cape Museum Educator Group
  • South African Institute of Architects (SAIA)
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