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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

  • Our Forgotten Heritage – The Beleaguered Blockhouses
  • Witnessing History - Correcting my memory of Hastings Ndlovu
  • Old National Monument Badges and Plaques Under Threat
  • Inner City Tourism Booming
  • The House that Dynamite Built
  • Brunel's Big Idea and the South African Connection
  • A Memoir Rediscovered: Jan Smuts's Private Secretary
  • Delville Wood - The costliest action the South African Brigade fought on the Western Front
  • Johannesburg Stock Exchange Buildings over the Decades
  • We need to reclaim our Hillbrow tower
  • Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker, and Imperial Delhi
  • Why we should not waste effort maintaining this important heritage site
  • Maggie Friedman - love, life and death with David Webster
  • A Bit of Old Barberton 
  • The fate of one Dutch noble line in the Cape Colony 

From the Directory

  • PGS Heritage
  • Gardens of the Golden City
  • Gauteng Institute for Architecture (GIfA) Heritage Committee
  • Simon's Town Historical Society
  • Eugene Barnard - Indwe Researcher
  • Lesotho Heritage Network
  • GLH Architects
  • HP Architects & Heritage Architects
  • Inclusive Design Company
  • Genealogical Society of South Africa (GSSA)
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