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  • Living Amongst the Stars at the Johannesburg Observatory
  • In the Footsteps of Gandhi - A Fascinating Work of Local History

From our Archive

  • Visiting the Historic Williston Cemetery
  • Heritage Processes in South Africa - Frequently asked questions
  • Remembering Bryanston's Grand Hunting Estate
  • Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker, and Imperial Delhi
  • Registrar in Trouble - Saving the life of an anti-apartheid activist
  • Pretoria on Parade - A Mystery Photo Album Emerges
  • David Stewart Howie - Anglo-Boer War Correspondent and Amateur Photographer
  • Battlefields Route – Koppies to Kroonstad
  • The town that plague built
  • Photographs of Johannesburg circa 1892
  • An early South African Philaphotographologist - Frederick William Willis
  • Johannesburg panoramas – a tour of note with Chipkin and Munro
  • The Significance of Beacons and Boundaries
  • The Melville Koppies Smelter Comes to Museum Africa
  • Century old photographs reveal the story of James Gribble, Paarl based photographer

From the Directory

  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
  • Franco Frescura Heritage Consultants
  • Horst Müller - Rural & Urban Exploration
  • Kate Otten Architects
  • Clare Chappel Urban Designer, Architect, Storyteller
  • Parkview Residents Association (PRA)
  • South East Witwatersrand Family History Society (SEWFHS)
  • Soweto History and Archives Project
  • Roger Stewart Antiquarian
  • Adroit Architects & Interiors
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