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Mining History

  • Review: A Guidebook to Sites of Geological and Mining Interest on the Central Witwatersrand
  • Moving migrant men to build the gold mining industry - a cruel system
  • Review of Pilgrim's Rest Who's Who
  • Review of Shovel and Sieve - This book has to be read because it captures the voice of Johannesburg's early prospectors
  • Homes of the Golden City
  • One of the Earliest Biographies of Barney Barnato
  • The Golden Crown versus 100 Years of Mining

From our Archive

  • Types of Blockhouses in South Africa
  • The Natal Volunteer Indian Ambulance Services in the Boer War - Legend and Reality
  • Radar at Wits: South Africa’s development of radar within three months in World War II
  • Leadership and the role SAHRA can play to facilitate connectivity with and between museums
  • Was Gandhi at Spioenkop?
  • Car spotting at the Kruger National Park in the 1970s
  • Delight at discovering a hidden aspect of Johannesburg - imPRESSed Craft Bindery Letterpress and Studio
  • Abdul Rahim Munshi - Possibly South Africa’s First Recorded Studio Photographer of Colour
  • The Battle to Save the Colosseum Theatre
  • Mills of the Cederberg
  • Endangered Heritage Sites Update - April 2017
  • Windybrow in Context - From Theodore Reunert Home to Windybrow Arts Centre
  • Deep concern for Parktown's oldest surviving house
  • Travelling along our National Roads
  • Brian McKechnie: heritage, passion and cars

From the Directory

  • ICOM-SA
  • Francois Johannes Cleophas - Sport Historian
  • Irene Village Hall
  • South African Museum Association (SAMA)
  • Collectors Treasury
  • Williams Cultural Management (WCM)
  • GLH Architects
  • Les Pivnic
  • Cape Town Heritage Trust (CTHT)
  • Dr Anna Trapido - Indigenous and Heritage Food Specialist
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