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Observatory

  • A Short History of the Mulberry Tree
  • Exploring the Syringa Tree
  • The Indian War Memorial: National Memory and Selective Forgetting
  • The story behind Johannesburg's oldest War Memorial
  • Da Gama Park - A little known park with some of the best views of Johannesburg
  • Three Historic Johannesburg Passes

From our Archive

  • The Nedbank Historical Collective - Exploring the oldest collective financial institution in South Africa - Part 1
  • The First Major Exhibition of Pierneef's Work in 35 Years
  • The Colosseum - From a Cinema Fantasy of the Thirties to Modern apartment living in Johannesburg
  • Carl Friedrich Adolf Wundram - Piet Retief’s only recorded photographer between the 1890s and 1910
  • An ode to Bra Fighter - A South African music connoisseur
  • Why build a majestic villa here?
  • The Epic March of 7 000 Zulu Workers
  • Shipwreck Gold Coins from South Africa
  • Abdul Rahim Munshi - Possibly South Africa’s First Recorded Studio Photographer of Colour
  • A Trip Inside the Derelict Royal Natal National Park Hotel
  • Kippies, the club that wasn't there
  • Iconic Rotunda being vandalised
  • Latent South African Visual History - Magic lantern slides
  • Step into a wagon and go back 200 years
  • Corrugated Irony - A Short History of the Tin Roof

From the Directory

  • ICOM-SA
  • Henry Paine Architects
  • Andre Bruton Construction
  • Friends of the Vredefort Dome World Heritage Site
  • Kensington Residents and Ratepayers Association (KRRA)
  • Dr Dean Allen - Author Lecturer Historian
  • Erica Davison THL
  • Krugersdorp Heritage Association
  • Lucille Davie - Jozi Tours and Tales
  • Mpumalanga Heritage
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