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Western Cape

  • Kalk Bay Historical Association at 30 Years
  • Blue Waters: Could Cape Town’s New Heritage Strategy Have Saved It?
  • Somerset West Loses an Iconic Heritage Building - The demolition of Blue Waters and the questions it leaves behind
  • The Unlikely Birth of the South African Lipizzaner
  • The Audience in the Room: Who is Cape Town's Cultural Heritage For?
  • Iran and South Africa: Naval Interactions of the 1970s
  • Whose Heritage? The Battle over Oude Molen and the Meaning of Heritage in South Africa
  • A Historical Narrative of Hangklip and the Development of Pringle Bay
  • Victorian-era Banknotes of Towns of the South Western Cape
  • In Search of Napoleonic Treasure in the Karoo
  • Three Remarkable Women: A Cape Town Family's Journey from VOC Origins to Australian Gold Rush
  • A Rare View of Cape Town: The 1818 Choris Lithograph
  • How a Jewellery Theft Shaped South African Contract Law
  • 60 Years - The Oukloof Memorial Project Riebeek Kasteel
  • Wupperthal - From Fire to Restoration
  • Obituary: Nicolas Bauman (1952-2025)
  • The Anderson Family of Winchester Mansions
  • South African medical students in Bonnie Scotland during the 1870s
  • The mega move of SAS Assegaai - Africa's first submarine museum
  • Simonstown: A Victorian Photo Album dissected 160 years later

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From our Archive

  • Who was the Marshall in Marshallstown?
  • Response to “Heritage house owners should be compensated by a property tax cut”
  • Edward Jenner: The Man Who Saved More Lives Than Any Person in History
  • 99 Years of the Ultimate Human Race: A Journey through Comrades History
  • The system has failed to achieve its purpose
  • Checklist for Heritage Warriors
  • A Little Church in the Veld
  • The Colosseum - From a Cinema Fantasy of the Thirties to Modern apartment living in Johannesburg
  • The Kimberley Memorial to the Honoured Dead - Cecil Rhodes, Herbert Baker, and the Architecture of Memory
  • Types of Blockhouses in South Africa
  • Rapid Rail Revamp in South Africa
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • A Brief History of Knysna from 1770 to 1890
  • How Fort Mistake got its name
  • When Johannesburg became a City!

From the Directory

  • South Africans in WW1, WW2 and Korean War
  • Rod Kruger - Gold Mining Talks and Tours
  • StudioJoy + Architects and Heritage Practitioners
  • Free State Heritage Resources Authority (FSHRA)
  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
  • Surfing Heritage South Africa
  • Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa (VASSA)
  • Ship Society
  • The Forge - Customized wrought metal work
  • Tulbagh Valley Heritage Foundation
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