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From our Archive

  • Windybrow and Theodore Reunert
  • "I knew in that instant that my life on the run was over" - The capture of Nelson Mandela 5 August 1962
  • The Tragedy of Richardson's Mill near Bathurst
  • Enigmatic pre-1875 South African Carte de Visite Hand-Colourists
  • Johannesburg's First Lift
  • Oblowitz's Bioscope and the Adelphi Cinema: Film in Hermanus: 1906-1981
  • How a Jewellery Theft Shaped South African Contract Law
  • Tracey’s Folly still stands proud
  • Confessions of a Collector of Heritage Maps
  • Looking back at the Woolff Restoration of the Donkin Row Houses
  • One of Joburg's Oldest Mansions in a Plumber's Backyard
  • The 1913 Land Act
  • A Sandstone Architect of Oudtshoorn
  • Thomas Charles John Bain - One of South Africa's greatest engineers
  • A short history of one the Cape's earliest freehold farms

From the Directory

  • GLH Architects
  • Friends of Blaauwberg Conservation Area (FoBCA)
  • Digital Rail Images of South Africa (DRISA)
  • The New Titanic Museum SA
  • Dullstroom Heritage Society
  • Francois Johannes Cleophas - Sport Historian
  • Tsimba Archaeological Footprints
  • Kate Otten Architects
  • Simon's Town Historical Society
  • Historic Pig and Whistle Inn
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