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Museums

  • Review of 'Telling stories of pain and hope: Museums in South Africa and Ireland'
  • Review of 'A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery: Reflections on Art and National Identity'
  • Review of hostels homes museum | Memorialising migrant labour pasts in Lwandle, South Africa
  • Activate / Captivate opens up the entire Wits Art Museum collection

From our Archive

  • The 'Kloosterskool' in Kroonstad
  • Looking back at the Roeland Street Prison
  • Newtown's Edwardian Lavatory Survives Against the Odds
  • A Chance in a Million - Identical photographs found on different continents
  • Rhodes Court Room, Lock-up and Post Office
  • The Top Star Drive-in Saga
  • The Tickey – a legendary South African Coin
  • Café Bibles: Contemporary Photographic Africana - Photo-stories / Fotoverhale (1950s to 1980s)
  • Heroic Efforts to Save the Kimberley City Hall
  • The Thesen Homes of Knysna
  • The search for Enoch Sontonga
  • Battles in the Magaliesberg
  • Digitising Memory: Preserving the Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery and Village Heritage
  • Embellishing an icon - Artists and the Union Buildings
  • Old stamp mills finally go home

From the Directory

  • Historical Time Lines
  • Panners Kingswood Village Association (PKVA)
  • Knysna Historical Society
  • Norwood Orchards Residents Association (NORA)
  • Kenton-on-Sea Ratepayers Association (KOSRA)
  • Ruth Muller Archivist / Researcher
  • Heritage Chronicle SA
  • African Centre for Heritage Activities (ACHA)
  • Western Cape Museum Educator Group
  • Italcotto Roofing
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