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Then and Now

  • A view of Johannesburg through lenses from a different era
  • Review of South End Then and Now
  • Review of Cape Town: Then and Now

From our Archive

  • Carnarvon: not rock engravings but tree engravings!
  • Interpreting Historical South African Photographs (1860s – 1970s)
  • One of the Cape’s most remarkable early mining ventures
  • A Short History of Craighall
  • Barnett's Views of Johannesburg and Suburbs - A window on the world that was early Johannesburg
  • No other building materials have advanced the built environment as much as steel and concrete
  • Home Straight for Massive ANC Archives Digitization Project
  • Johannesburg's Camera Obscura and a world-class photographic collection
  • A Memoir Rediscovered: Jan Smuts's Private Secretary
  • A short description of St Michael and All Angels Queenstown
  • Leadership and the role SAHRA can play to facilitate connectivity with and between museums
  • Neil Fraser – passionate city man
  • The traditional ‘two minutes silence in remembrance’ was first observed in Cape Town
  • Crossing the Vaal (at Vereeniging)
  • Priceless heritage sites celebrated at Toppieshoek

From the Directory

  • Klerksdorp Museum
  • Lareman Architects
  • Norwood Orchards Residents Association (NORA)
  • Agora Consulting
  • PGS Heritage
  • James Mpanza Legacy Foundation
  • Morbid Musings - Marie-Louise Rouget
  • Brixton Community Forum (BCF)
  • 3DSS Laser Scanning Services
  • Outeniqua Historical Society
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