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Apartheid

  • First comprehensive review of the architecture of early apartheid in Pretoria
  • Review of Falling Monuments Reluctant Ruins
  • Moving migrant men to build the gold mining industry - a cruel system
  • Civilising Grass - Jonathan Cane’s study is thought-provoking, entertaining, interesting and provocative
  • Review of South End Then and Now
  • Review of hostels homes museum | Memorialising migrant labour pasts in Lwandle, South Africa
  • Review of Building Apartheid on Architecture and Order in Imperial Cape Town
  • Insider and Outsider views of Fietas/Pageview

From our Archive

  • A remarkable set of 33 postcards of Johannesburg circa 1904-08
  • Brass Plaque reveals a history of a distinguished man and his architectural firm
  • The Buildings of C. H. Thrupp and Company over the Decades
  • Head of Heritage to Bow Out, Leaving a Joburg Legacy
  • Welcome to Ladysmith, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
  • A Brief History of Windybrow
  • The story of the largest elephant tusks to ever come out of Kenya
  • Alluvial Diamond Digging at Holpan
  • Nongoloza: King of the Ninevites
  • Old photographs of the massive Braamfontein Coal Stage
  • Rousing Interest among the Young
  • Who was the Marshall in Marshallstown?
  • One of the most remarkable fortification-building projects in the military history of South Africa (if not the world)
  • Rickshaws of early Johannesburg
  • The Most Important Polish-Founded Monument in South Africa

From the Directory

  • Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • Ubique Heritage Consultants
  • Graeme Addison
  • Gabriel Fagan Architects
  • South African Cannon Association (SACA)
  • The Conservation Studio - Albany Museum
  • Provincial Heritage Resources Authority Gauteng (PHRAG)
  • Cape Town Heritage Trust (CTHT)
  • George Heritage Trust
  • Historical Society of Port Elizabeth
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