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Battles

  • The Battle of Diamond Hill
  • The Battles of Silkaatsnek
  • Battle of Nooitgedacht
  • Siege of Elands River - 4 to 16 August 1900
  • Battle of Dwarsvlei
  • Battle of Kalkheuwel
  • Wauchope Road
  • The Fort
  • Battle of Fordsburg
  • Santa Clara
  • Deneys Reitz’s House
  • Wanooka
  • Endulini

From our Archive

  • Step into a wagon and go back 200 years
  • The Early Beginnings of Knysna's First Farm
  • An intriguing century old pamphlet of the 1913 Mineworkers Strike
  • The Mainline Railway Termini of London
  • A tribute to Werner Kirchhoff - Surveyor of distinction and an early pioneer of South African satellite geodesy
  • Rhodes Court Room, Lock-up and Post Office
  • Cullinan - The War Years
  • Johannesburg as seen through the eyes of a young schoolboy in the late 1940s, early 1950s and later as a young married man in the early 1960s
  • Da Gama Park - A little known park with some of the best views of Johannesburg
  • Great Mechanical Engineers of the South African Railways & Harbours (Part 1)
  • Advice on Wooden Floor Restoration
  • Industrial Heritage -  The Story behind the Lime Kiln at Heuningspruit
  • Five homes in bohemian Parktown
  • Rediscovering the 1947 Royal Visit to South Africa
  • Lessons from my mentor, Steffen Ahrends

From the Directory

  • Durban Walking Tours
  • Dannhauser Chronicle
  • Charles Thomas - Antique Furniture Restorers
  • Amambatha Heritage Society (AHS)
  • The Empathy Lab
  • African Centre for Heritage Activities (ACHA)
  • Joint Plans Committee (JPC)
  • Henry Paine Architects
  • Lower Albany Historical Society (LAHS)
  • South African Institute of Architects (SAIA)
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