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Collecting

  • Review of Book Collecting in South Africa
  • Collecting with Denis Godfrey
  • Battle of the Books - Treasures of the Africana Museum versus Pictorial History of Johannesburg
  • Viewpoints - The University of Cape Town and Its Treasures
  • Two books by the man who shaped the collections of the Johannesburg City Library

From our Archive

  • Foster Gang Detective Tells his Story
  • Four strategies to deal with colonial buildings
  • A remarkable set of 33 postcards of Johannesburg circa 1904-08
  • Lantern: A Cultural Mirror of South Africa, 1949–1995
  • A Bloody Riot in Soweto in 1957
  • Probably the earliest record of Ndebele wall decoration I have discovered to date
  • Photos of Pageview in 1973
  • Looking back at the restoration of the Barbican Building
  • ‘Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa’: Logan of Matjiesfontein
  • The mosaic that is Jeppestown 
  • Somerset House's dusty, musty basement
  • Old National Monument Badges and Plaques Under Threat
  • Thomas Charles John Bain - One of South Africa's greatest engineers
  • Photographers active in Pretoria - First 60 years (1855-1915)
  • Mining Headgears - Pure Functionality Ruling over Beauty

From the Directory

  • Heritage Potchefstroom Erfenis
  • StudioJoy + Architects and Heritage Practitioners
  • Wynberg East Civic Association (WECA)
  • South African Institute of Architects (SAIA)
  • Amathole Museum
  • Soweto History and Archives Project
  • Andy Selfe - Millwright
  • Dullstroom Heritage Society
  • Stellenbosch Interest Group
  • Friends of the Vredefort Dome World Heritage Site
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