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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

  • Summer holidays, Sunshine, Swimwear, Suntan lotion and Sand buckets - South African Beach Photographers (1930s to 1960s)
  • The Power of Rust
  • Endangered Heritage Sites 2017 - Longlist Announced
  • Types of Blockhouses in South Africa
  • Spies, spices, scurvy, and a small map of Madagascar
  • The Destruction of the Bezuidenhout Valley War Memorial
  • Hout Bay Heritage - Huge potential destroyed by neglect
  • Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Part 2)
  • Gandhi - Inclusive Icon or Sectarian Symbol
  • South Africa’s Photographic Salon Entries - Past and Present
  • The rock engravings at Bosworth farm
  • Finding my grandmother
  • Barberton to host HASA symposium
  • A paper on the origins of the original Witwatersrand Gold Fields with special reference to the Witwatersrand Ridge
  • Meandering along the Sea Point Promenade

From the Directory

  • Gurney Planning & Design (Pty) Ltd
  • DK Conservators
  • Agora Consulting
  • Middelburg Karoo Tourism
  • Five Hundred Year Archive Project
  • Susan Jean Taylor
  • Mpumalanga Institute of Architects (MPIA)
  • Keitumetse Mangate Production Company
  • Ulwazi Programme
  • African Pictures
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