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  • Review of Falling Monuments Reluctant Ruins

From our Archive

  • An incredible memoir revealing the suffering of women during the Anglo-Boer War
  • The Unlikely Birth of the South African Lipizzaner
  • A Short History of the SA Dagger
  • Houghton was nearly a Mining Township
  • Outsider Art
  • Joburg’s castles
  • Early Standerton through the eyes of a deltiologist
  • Oxford to Cambridge: The Revival of Britain's Varsity Line
  • A Short History of East Fort Pretoria
  • Nukain Mabuza’s Painted Rock Garden on the main road between Kaapmuiden and Barberton
  • The dark history behind the Oriental Plaza
  • Tributes pour in for Marian Laserson
  • Commemorating the first public library in South Africa
  • X Doesn’t Always Mark the Spot: Rediscovering Withington’s Lost Villa
  • Unpacking the history behind this 1919 Ravenscroft photograph

From the Directory

  • Old Pretoria East Residents and Ratepayers Alliance (OPERRA)
  • Tony Westby-Nunn
  • Western Cape Museum Educator Group
  • Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
  • University of Cape Town - Conservation and the Built Environment
  • Booklovers Paradise
  • Dannhauser Chronicle
  • Architects Boers Associates
  • Parkmore Community Association (PCA)
  • Melville Residents Association (MRA)
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