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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

  • Remember the 26th of September: The Battle of Sandfontein
  • Historic Krugersdorp West Church Faces Demolition
  • The Colosseum - From a Cinema Fantasy of the Thirties to Modern apartment living in Johannesburg
  • A Century of Pretoria's Holy Redeemer Catholic Church
  • Unicorns in the Stormberg - New light on an old mystery
  • History of the Rissik Street Post Office Clock
  • Bez Valley War Memorial to be moved
  • Johannesburg's First Lift
  • Historic recipe books are an aspect of cultural history
  • Where are the 'singing tomorrows' of the Freedom Charter?
  • Construction of Graaff-Reinet’s Van Ryneveld’s Pass Dam Wall (1920-1925) - Three photographic collections present a historic engineering narrative
  • Pageview hero stood his ground for 20 years
  • Old National Monument Badges and Plaques Under Threat
  • The Father of East London's House
  • A Brief History of Parkview

From the Directory

  • Andy Selfe - Millwright
  • Friends of Johannesburg Cemeteries
  • Emmarentia Residents Association (ERA)
  • Cape Town Walking Tours
  • Tshwane Building Heritage
  • Clydesdale Village Association
  • SDKS-Architects
  • Ladysmith Siege Museum Trust
  • Kensington Heritage Trust
  • Ruth Muller Archivist / Researcher
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