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Johannesburg

  • 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
  • Veld: The Gardens and Landscapes of Patrick Watson
  • A novel about the 'Last Days of Old Parktown'
  • Review of Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City
  • 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 '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
  • A view of Johannesburg through lenses from a different era
  • Review of Shovel and Sieve - This book has to be read because it captures the voice of Johannesburg's early prospectors
  • Review of Secret Johannesburg
  • Savour this book and take yourself on a journey through South Africa in 1889
  • The Sculpture of Laurence Anthony Chait
  • The Memoirs of Napier Devitt

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From our Archive

  • One of South Africa's most fascinating farming histories
  • Looking back at the Woolff Restoration of the Donkin Row Houses
  • The town that plague built
  • Questions on the origins of the name 'Witwatersrand'
  • Pritchard Street thrives once again!
  • Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve - One of Joburg's best kept secrets
  • Rider Haggard - Lost in Pretoria?
  • Fire Destroys Johannesburg Heritage Home
  • The Story Behind the Oudstryders Monument
  • Touch Joburg’s gold mining days at the Rand Club
  • The Sunnyside Spook House
  • Honouring the 'Father of Nguni Literature'
  • The Mill Hill Story
  • Tracing the 1922 Strike
  • Gauteng’s only artesian spring

From the Directory

  • Kommetjie Heritage Society
  • Cape Institute for Architecture
  • Andre Bruton Construction
  • South African Society of Archivists
  • Genealogical Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • Salt River Heritage Society
  • Braamfontein Spruit Trust
  • Architects Boers Associates
  • Eastern Cape Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (ECPHRA)
  • Yeoville and Bellevue Ratepayers Association
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