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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

  • Pogonology: South African men and their facial hair - As portrayed in photographs from the Victorian era
  • The Bane(s) of South African Historians
  • Sammy Marks Museum - The Survival of a Grand Century Old Estate
  • The Grave Story of Rietfontein (Sizwe) Hospital
  • Civic Spine 1989-1991 - The voice of the architects
  • Explorer William Burchell – ecologist with a vision
  • The Ancestors of the Tswana - Farmers Building Stone-Walled Villages
  • Operators of “Mirrors with Memory” South African Photographers (1846 to 1915)
  • The Heritage Portal in Numbers (December 2020)
  • Perfect nuisance and as mad as a hatter - Rudolf Gottfried Steger, Pretoria based photographer from 1898-1919
  • Before and After - The Tragedy of the Indian High Commission (Arkleton) Perimeter Wall
  • Embellishing an icon - Artists and the Union Buildings
  • South African Railways – the years of transition from steam
  • The Origins of William Nicol Drive
  • Rediscovering the 1947 Royal Visit to South Africa

From the Directory

  • KlipSA (Klipriviersberg Sustainability Association)
  • LM Architects and Heritage Consultants
  • Benoni Heritage Society
  • Gauteng Provincial Government - Department of Infrastructure Development - Directorate of Public Healthcare
  • South African Naval Heritage Trust (NHT)
  • Anglo Zulu War Historical Society
  • Eastern Cape Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (ECPHRA)
  • Greater Vredehoek Heritage Action Group
  • Norwood Orchards Residents Association (NORA)
  • Drakenstein Heritage Foundation (DHF)
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