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  • Parkhurst House had enough explosives to ‘blow up Johannesburg’

From our Archive

  • Obituary: Nicolas Bauman (1952-2025)
  • How Fort Mistake got its name
  • The Pyrites Panic - When one in three citizens left Johannesburg
  • Joburg’s castles
  • Journal of a visit to the Gold Fields in 1889
  • Planners, Protectors and Predators: Public Trust and the tension between Heritage and Planning laws
  • One of the earliest and most important items of South African Railway History goes on sale
  • A Vision for Chinatown - The Remarkable Mr Walter Pon
  • Was there really a Mushroom Farm in Sandton Central?
  • Heritage in South Africa Since 1994: Civil Society at the Frontline
  • Salisbury House shines again (in 2005)
  • The Forgotten Biscuit King
  • 150 Year Old Settler Church Restored!
  • One of the Cape’s most remarkable early mining ventures
  • Hastings Ndlovu's day too

From the Directory

  • South African Institute for Heritage Science and Conservation
  • Wynberg East Civic Association (WECA)
  • Modderfontein Conservation Society
  • Talana Museum
  • Greater Vredehoek Heritage Action Group
  • Osmond Lange Architects
  • Bosele Tours Alexandra
  • 3DSS Laser Scanning Services
  • Pam McLaren - Female Ancestry British Kaffaria & Natal
  • Erasmus Fairbairn Architects
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