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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

  • South African medical students in Bonnie Scotland during the 1870s
  • The King James Bible - Thanks a Billion
  • The Story Behind the 1922 Rand Revolt Centenary Stone
  • George Pauling - Leading railway contractor in the development of Southern Africa
  • Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Epilogue)
  • Over four thousand traditional Zulu artefacts digitised
  • Oxford to Cambridge: The Revival of Britain's Varsity Line
  • The Scottish Horse Memorial - The story behind one of Johannesburg's earliest war memorials
  • Bygone fortune seeker and rail restauranteur Theodor Fiebiger
  • How the Village of Rhodes Became a Heritage Area
  • A delightful 1987 calendar celebrating the centenary of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
  • Century old photographs reveal the story of James Gribble, Paarl based photographer
  • Wilge River - Supplying water to the Premier Mine
  • Hector Pieterson gets his memorial
  • Robert Sobukwe - The shaping of an Africanist at Healdtown Mission Institute

From the Directory

  • Peter Glendinning
  • Parktown North Residents Association (PNRA)
  • Bryanston East Community Forum (BECF)
  • Makana Residents' Association
  • Braamfontein Spruit Trust
  • Port Alfred Ratepayers Association (PARRA)
  • Glassworks
  • Tsimba Archaeological Footprints
  • Western Cape Museum Educator Group
  • Mandela Bay Heritage Trust (MBHT)
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