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Queenstown

  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • The German Monarchy, Merino Sheep and a Wool Merchant
  • The Royal Visit to Queenstown
  • South Africa's Famous Ox-Tamer
  • One of South Africa's most fascinating farming histories
  • A short description of St Michael and All Angels Queenstown

From our Archive

  • Vogelstruisbult Tragedy - An abandoned Springs Gold Mine
  • 80 Albert Street - The nerve centre for controlling black people's lives during the early stages of apartheid
  • Andrew Geddes Bain - Iconic Pass Builder and Father of Geology in South Africa
  • Kathy Munro visits the Joburg Firsts Exhibition
  • Durban architectural gem under threat
  • Somerset West Loses an Iconic Heritage Building - The demolition of Blue Waters and the questions it leaves behind
  • The Kimberley Memorial to the Honoured Dead - Cecil Rhodes, Herbert Baker, and the Architecture of Memory
  • Subway mural brings Fietas alive (in 2010)
  • The Last Remaining Natural Waterfall in Johannesburg
  • The man who never spoke about the war
  • No other building materials have advanced the built environment as much as steel and concrete
  • The South African baboon that became a war hero
  • Houghton was nearly a Mining Township
  • Remembering the First Trans-Africa Flight
  • Tributes pour in for Marian Laserson

From the Directory

  • Simon Green - Anglo-Boer War Expert
  • Observatory Civic Association (OCA)
  • Cannon Association of South Africa (CAOSA)
  • Drakenstein Heritage Foundation (DHF)
  • Mandela Bay Heritage Trust (MBHT)
  • Kate Otten Architects
  • Cape's Threatened Buildings
  • Jenna Mervis - Author and Museum Storyteller
  • Henry Paine Architects
  • Van Plettenberg Historical Society
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