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Social History

  • A novel about the 'Last Days of Old Parktown'
  • Review of Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City
  • Diepsloot cannot be ignored if you are a student of Johannesburg
  • Hidden Histories of Gordonia, Land Dispossession and Resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800-1990
  • Fighting their own War - South African Blacks and the First World War
  • Johannesburg: Images and Continuities - A History of Working Class Life through Pictures 1885 -1935
  • Review of Tea at Ansteys
  • Insider and Outsider views of Fietas/Pageview
  • Parktown 1992 vs Parktown 2012

From our Archive

  • Joubert Park Lives - A 2016 Visit
  • Simonstown: A Victorian Photo Album dissected 160 years later
  • South African Pavement Photographs (1930s to 1960s) - A Nostalgic reflection
  • Deep concern for Parktown's oldest surviving house
  • South Africa’s most unlikely export
  • Sit! Stay! More than a century ago - South African pet canines in front of the lens
  • The Last Remaining Natural Waterfall in Johannesburg
  • John Scott Tucker - Ineffective Official who Abolished his own Post
  • Prospecting for gold in the 21st century
  • 80 Albert Street - The nerve centre for controlling black people's lives during the early stages of apartheid
  • A Brief History of Parkview
  • Remembering the First Trans-Africa Flight
  • Iconic painting reveals close relationship between Churchill and Smuts
  • Southern Africa from above: Aerial Photography – A historical overview
  • A Little Church in the Veld

From the Directory

  • Camps Bay Ratepayers and Residents Association (CBRRA)
  • Boksburg and East Rand Historical Association
  • Muizenberg Heritage
  • South East Witwatersrand Family History Society (SEWFHS)
  • Durban Walking Tours
  • African Conservation Trust (ACT)
  • Eastern Cape Institute of Architects (ECIA)
  • Joint Plans Committee West
  • Yeoville and Bellevue Ratepayers Association
  • Hearth Heritage
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