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Colin Hoffmann

  • Review: A Brief Look into the History of South African Cycling, and Other Interesting Facts

From our Archive

  • "I knew in that instant that my life on the run was over" - The capture of Nelson Mandela 5 August 1962
  • George Rex - Remarkable but not Royal
  • Our vanishing heritage – South Africa’s top ten endangered sites 2016
  • David Stewart Howie - Anglo-Boer War Correspondent and Amateur Photographer
  • Caring for the injured after the Johannesburg Station bombing
  • Touch Joburg’s gold mining days at the Rand Club
  • Plague, Gandhi and the Parliamentary Clerk's Daughter
  • “Presumably a criminal is not always a criminal” - Wakkerstroom’s photographic artist Maximillian Alfred Daubert (1865-1951)
  • Five Lost Seven Remain: The Carnegie Libraries of South Africa
  • The Forgotten Biscuit King
  • The Significance of Northcliff Hill
  • Dark tourism disaster and the terrible Laingsburg flood of 1981
  • Researchers excited by exceptional photographic find
  • Remembering the launch of the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation
  • The Henry Charles Hull Story: Law, Politics and Mining in Early Johannesburg

From the Directory

  • 1820 Settlers Community Group
  • Upper Houghton Residents Association (UHRA)
  • Knysna Ratepayers Association (KRA)
  • PGS Heritage
  • University of Cape Town - Conservation and the Built Environment
  • Northern Cape Provincial Heritage Authority
  • Sibambene Bolt Heritage Construction
  • KEIM Mineral Paint and Plaster Systems of Southern Africa
  • Parktown Association
  • Fort Beaufort Heritage Revive
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