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Family History

  • Review of 'Mlamulankunzi: The Life and Times of Dick King'
  • Review of Farmhouses of Old Natal
  • The Silver Tea Service - A memoir dipped in mystery

From our Archive

  • The War of 1812 - A needless war perhaps?
  • Rediscovery of historical survey beacon on Oxford Road
  • Johannesburg Sun - Planning Africa's Biggest Hotel
  • The Controversial Naming of Sandton
  • Planners, Protectors and Predators: Public Trust and the tension between Heritage and Planning laws
  • In conversation with Jan van Wijk - The refurbishment of the Rembrandt Gallery, Wits University
  • Potchefstroom has lost one of its grand old buildings
  • Barberton to host HASA symposium
  • Gordons Bay Coastal Defence Battery 1943
  • A Century of Stories: Celebrating Carol Hardijzer’s 100th Contribution to South African Photographic History
  • Kenneth Birch and his appreciation of the Witwatersrand Mining landscape
  • The first printed map of South Africa - The Martin Waldseemüller map
  • Early Middelburg through the eyes of two deltiologists
  • The Vergelegen Story Part Two - The Phillips and Barlow Years
  • Amazing places to view the Sandton skyline

From the Directory

  • Mayat Hart Architecture
  • Border Historical Society
  • Southern African Historical Society (SAHS)
  • Mahikeng Society
  • South African Athletics Heritage Group
  • Tsica Heritage Consultants
  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
  • Yeoville and Bellevue Ratepayers Association
  • Provincial Heritage Resources Authority Gauteng (PHRAG)
  • Hawequa-|Xam Community
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