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Rietfontein

  • The History of Sizwe (formerly Rietfontein) Hospital
  • Plague, Gandhi and the Parliamentary Clerk's Daughter
  • The Grave Story of Rietfontein (Sizwe) Hospital

From our Archive

  • Celebrating Flo Bird - 80 Years of a Remarkable Life
  • South African Gates of Yore – A Photographic Portfolio
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • What was Boksburg like in 1903?
  • Three Remarkable Women: A Cape Town Family's Journey from VOC Origins to Australian Gold Rush
  • Old photographs of the massive Braamfontein Coal Stage
  • More than a century ago: “Toen en Nu” (Then and Now) - A poem by Ompie
  • Raw material for the study of the transition from Boer administration to colonial British management
  • Father Eustace St Clair Hill and the Bambatha Rebellion 1906
  • The traditional ‘two minutes silence in remembrance’ was first observed in Cape Town
  • Mourning the loss of a Lower Houghton landmark
  • Visiting the oldest extant cemetery in South Africa
  • Commemorating Sir Herbert Baker's last building in South Africa
  • A walking tour of historic Calvinia
  • South Africa’s last coppersmith

From the Directory

  • Cape Town Family History Society
  • Friends of the Vredefort Dome World Heritage Site
  • Edwin Conroy - Genalogist
  • Barry Pringle Photography
  • Rod Kruger - Gold Mining Talks and Tours
  • Greenside Residents Association (GRA)
  • Hearth Heritage
  • Southern African Historical Society (SAHS)
  • Westcliff Residents Association (WRA)
  • Prof Walter Peters - Architect & Heritage Practitioner
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Recent Posts

  • Witnessing History - Correcting my memory of Hastings Ndlovu
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  • Some Angel and Cherub Statues in Braamfontein Cemetery
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  • Shipwrecks in False Bay and South Peninsula Coast: Commercial Ships
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  • Limited edition set of six historic maps
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  • Can anyone help me complete my run of Lantern?
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