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Newtown

  • The Melville Koppies Smelter Comes to Museum Africa
  • Is it heritage? Graffiti wall art and Pinki’s Inn, Jeppestown
  • The restoration of the Workers' Cottages in Newtown
  • Johannesburg's Camera Obscura and a world-class photographic collection
  • Putting Joburg buildings before profits - The legacy of Robin Fee
  • The Legacy of Dr Arthur David Bensusan
  • A delightful 1987 calendar celebrating the centenary of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
  • Kippies, the club that wasn't there
  • Newtown Workers' Compound commemorates municipal workers
  • The town that plague built
  • Old Park Station - A heritage site of exceptional significance comes alive again!
  • Johannesburg's Early Markets
  • Johannesburg Stock Exchange Buildings over the Decades
  • The Preservation of Diagonal Street
  • Newtown's Edwardian Lavatory Survives Against the Odds
  • Museum Africa: An internationally renowned Africana collection at risk
  • Newtown Cooling Towers - Preserve or Demolish?
  • The Birth of the Market Theatre

From our Archive

  • John Hamilton Wicksteed - The competent young engineer who came to a sad end
  • The Original High Speed Rail - The Great Western Main Line between London & Bristol
  • Enigmatic pre-1875 South African Carte de Visite Hand-Colourists
  • A remarkable story of how a man feels about his home
  • South Africa is an ideal destination for heritage railway tourism
  • DocuFest Africa - Showcasing rare and unusual images of life in South Africa during Apartheid
  • Cullinan Between the Wars
  • Visiting one of the most important Muslim tombs in the Western Cape
  • “Presumably a criminal is not always a criminal” - Wakkerstroom’s photographic artist Maximillian Alfred Daubert (1865-1951)
  • A Novelist in Hermanus
  • South Africa’s most unlikely export
  • Tributes pour in for Marian Laserson
  • A personal tribute to Marcus Holmes
  • Hastings Ndlovu's day too
  • We need to reclaim our Hillbrow tower

From the Directory

  • Friends of Alberts Farm
  • Anglo Zulu War Historical Society
  • Cape Dutch Quarters
  • Ship Society
  • The Heritage Foundation (Die Erfenisstigting)
  • Franco Frescura Heritage Consultants
  • Archival Platform
  • Cape Town Heritage Trust (CTHT)
  • KZN Family History Society
  • Sandstone Heritage Trust
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