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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

  • A short history of Gerard Moerdyk's first church
  • Dark tourism disaster and the terrible Laingsburg flood of 1981
  • The History of Bryanston
  • It’s a match! Early Tweddill photograph and portrait painting matched
  • From Drawing Boards to Building Information Modelling (BIM)
  • The use of so-called 'Magic Mushrooms' by Zulu warriors
  • Lion Battery - The Russians and the Noon Gun
  • Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Pondoland, South Africa (Part 1)
  • South Africa's newest African heritage and music museum
  • James Cameron - Second City Engineer of Cape Town
  • The fate of one Dutch noble line in the Cape Colony 
  • Saving the grave of Bryanston's mystery man
  • One of the earliest and most important items of South African Railway History goes on sale
  • The Great Observatories of the Magaliesberg
  • The South African Victorian photo album (early 1860s into the early 1900s)

From the Directory

  • Roger Stewart Antiquarian
  • KZN Family History Society
  • Van Plettenberg Historical Society
  • Wheat Industry Museum
  • Durban Art Deco Society
  • Michael Hart Architects & Urban Designers
  • Docomomo South Africa
  • Erica Davison THL
  • Friends of the Rail (FOTR)
  • South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH)
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