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Soweto

  • Witnessing History - Correcting my memory of Hastings Ndlovu
  • Life in exile for the teenagers who survived June 16th
  • Hector Pieterson gets his memorial
  • A Bloody Riot in Soweto in 1957
  • Where are the 'singing tomorrows' of the Freedom Charter?
  • The charter of ‘singing tomorrows’
  • Charles Rhangani Furumele - meeting ends for the children
  • June 16, 1976 - 'This is our day'
  • Hector's sister tells the story still
  • Disappeared June 16 victim Mbuyisa Makhubu to be honoured
  • The home of jailed activist Seth Mazibuko
  • Looking back at the restoration of the Credo Mutwa Cultural Village
  • The History of Soccer in Jozi
  • Hastings Ndlovu's day too
  • Soweto Theatre speaks in many languages
  • The Dube Story
  • Winnie's pain and torture in prison
  • The Preservation of Pimville Soweto
  • Johannesburg's Beerhalls Crisis
  • The Story Behind the Monument to Petrus Molefe

From our Archive

  • "A Great City Deserves Great Cathedrals"
  • Blue plaques unveiled on historic Solomon Street workers compounds
  • Over four thousand traditional Zulu artefacts digitised
  • Carruthers and Frescura receive highest honour in the heritage community
  • Mystery photographs of two forgotten Salvation Army jamborees in South Africa
  • Jan Smuts and the Indweans
  • The General Hendrik Schoeman Enigma - Visionary, Villain or Victim?
  • Finding the grave of Nat Nakasa in New York
  • Father Eustace St Clair Hill and the Bambatha Rebellion 1906
  • Thomas Baines - The 'Eersteling' Sketches
  • She took no prisoners and let no grass grow beneath her feet - Franco Frescura pays tribute to Helen Aron
  • A Short History of East Fort Pretoria
  • If only statues could speak: the four Boer statues Kitchener ‘stole’
  • A stroll through the Heidelberg Kloof cemetery
  • Obituary for Clive Michael Chipkin

From the Directory

  • Johan van Heerden - Researcher
  • Constantia Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association
  • Bela Bela Heritage
  • Association for Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA)
  • Parkmore Community Association (PCA)
  • University of Cape Town - Conservation and the Built Environment
  • Saaliegah Zardad Heritage Consultant
  • Pressed Ceilings & Decor by Legacy
  • Yeoville and Bellevue Ratepayers Association
  • Knysna Ratepayers Association (KRA)
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