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Medical History

  • Review of Yeomen of the Karoo - The Story of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein
  • Review of 'Plague, Pox and Pandemics'
  • Review of 'An Unwitting Assassin: The Story of my Father’s Attempted Assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd'
  • Homeless Wanderers - Movement and mental illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century
  • This biography honours and celebrates a pioneering South African woman doctor of the 20th century

From our Archive

  • One of Joburg's Oldest Mansions in a Plumber's Backyard
  • What happened to the Van Wouw House?
  • A short sharp history of the Marikana Railway Station, est. 1910
  • The Bane(s) of South African Historians
  • A Memoir Rediscovered: Jan Smuts's Private Secretary
  • Southern Africa from above: Aerial Photography – A historical overview
  • A horologist, but much more
  • A stroll through the Heidelberg Kloof cemetery
  • The Poster Age, 1968-1972 - Plastering the Campus red and blue and black
  • Planners, Protectors and Predators: Public Trust and the tension between Heritage and Planning laws
  • The mega move of SAS Assegaai - Africa's first submarine museum
  • The Poswohl Synagogue - A Memorial to a Community that No Longer Exists
  • We need to reclaim our Hillbrow tower
  • Mining Headgears - Pure Functionality Ruling over Beauty
  • Using the latest technology to digitise maps and posters at the Kwazulu-Natal Museum

From the Directory

  • Brian McKechnie - Architect & Heritage Consultant
  • Shaw Badenhorst - Researcher
  • Heritage Chronicle SA
  • Old Wynberg Village Society
  • Estelle Liebenberg-Barkhuizen - Paper Conservator
  • Stephanie Victor
  • Mahikeng Society
  • Cindy Postlethwayt Heritage Consultant
  • Westcliff Residents Association (WRA)
  • Friends of the Knysna Libraries
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