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  • Surveying the Confidence Reef Mine
  • Return to Juliwe Cemetery - A community journey
  • Only this cemetery remains as a stark reminder of an uprooted community

From our Archive

  • Historical Photographs and the South African Law
  • A short history of one the Cape's earliest freehold farms
  • Café Bibles: Contemporary Photographic Africana - Photo-stories / Fotoverhale (1950s to 1980s)
  • A flag for the Con Court, with help from an elephant
  • What happened in the Potchefstroom concentration camp
  • The fate of one Dutch noble line in the Cape Colony 
  • Ladies Mile, the result of a bitter fight
  • Why was there an explosion of towers in Johannesburg in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
  • Surveying the buildings of Paarl (in 1980)
  • A short history of Gerard Moerdyk's first church
  • Old National Monument Badges and Plaques Under Threat
  • The Audience in the Room: Who is Cape Town's Cultural Heritage For?
  • Johannesburg’s mayors
  • Activism by Sandton Ratepayers in the 1990s
  • Oscar Wilhelm Alric Forssman - Wealthy man who suffered devastating losses

From the Directory

  • Durban Art Deco Society
  • City Bowl Ratepayers and Residents Association (CIBRA)
  • Gauteng Provincial Government - Department of Infrastructure Development - Directorate of Public Healthcare
  • African Pictures
  • Williams Associate Architects
  • Melville Residents Association (MRA)
  • Clare Chappel Urban Designer, Architect, Storyteller
  • South African Athletics Heritage Group
  • Mike Kantey
  • Chris Taylor Tour Guide
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