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Gauteng

  • Ufrieda Ho (1973–2026): Remembering a Life Through Paper Sons and Daughters
  • Beyond the Randlords - Revisiting J.B. Taylor’s 'A Pioneer Looks Back'
  • Review: A Guidebook to Sites of Geological and Mining Interest on the Central Witwatersrand
  • Review of Two Essential Heidelberg Volumes
  • Veld: The Gardens and Landscapes of Patrick Watson
  • A novel about the 'Last Days of Old Parktown'
  • First comprehensive review of the architecture of early apartheid in Pretoria
  • Review of Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City
  • Moving migrant men to build the gold mining industry - a cruel system
  • Inside the Carlton Hotel - Nostalgia overlaid with depression
  • This study is about a moment in time in the Yeoville story
  • 'The Man behind the Beard' - A sympathetic biography that makes a contribution to the history of South Africa in the 20th century
  • Civilising Grass - Jonathan Cane’s study is thought-provoking, entertaining, interesting and provocative
  • Review of 'Barnato's Diamonds'
  • Review of Jose Dale Lace: A Woman of Some Importance
  • Review of Hidden Pretoria - The best book in this format so far
  • Review of 'An Unwitting Assassin: The Story of my Father’s Attempted Assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd'
  • Henry Longland's early survey of Johannesburg circa 1893
  • Book Review of 'The 2Summers #Gauteng52 Challenge'
  • A view of Johannesburg through lenses from a different era

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From our Archive

  • Government Avenue Cape Town - South Africa's oldest pedestrian thoroughfare
  • One photograph – Seven Afrikaans-speaking Rhodes Scholars at Oxford University (1939)
  • Iconic Rotunda being vandalised
  • Michael Sutton - A hero became a friend
  • Heritage Honours Awarded at Tolstoy Farm
  • Madoda Tshabalala – the taxi driver we love to hate
  • Why was there an explosion of towers in Johannesburg in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
  • Joburg is ready for a raid
  • Remembering Old Claremont Cape Town
  • Editing Our Past
  • Interpreting Historical South African Photographs (1860s – 1970s)
  • The Tanzania - Zambia Railway
  • A secret heritage home on the Kensington ridge
  • Kate’s Legacy - Seeking the family of an abandoned box of beautiful old photographs
  • Zulu Dawn - Behind the scenes with Midge Carter

From the Directory

  • Roodt Architects
  • Old Wynberg Village Society
  • Friends of Alberts Farm
  • Dannhauser Chronicle
  • ACO Associates
  • Muizenberg - Then and Now
  • Saxonwold and Parkwood Residents Association (SAPRA)
  • Amafa / Heritage KwaZulu Natal
  • Pam McLaren - Female Ancestry British Kaffaria & Natal
  • Eugene Barnard - Indwe Researcher
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