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Cannon Firing Het Posthuys: Commemoration of the Battle of Muizenberg

Constitution Hill and Historic Graffiti Tour

Johannesburg Collectable Book Fair - 9 July 2016

The Empire Exhibition: Johannesburg, 1936

"Braamfontein Cemetery's Nineteenth Century Graves" and "44 Main Street" - Virtual Tours June 2020

"isiShweshwe: A History of the Indigenisation of Blueprint in South Africa" - A Talk by Juliette Leeb-du Toit

'Die Land' - Kalk Bay: A Social and Architectural History

'Die Ou Pastorie' - Blue Plaque Unveiling

'Dumps' Willis Memorial Lecture: Travels in Peace and War in Southern & East Africa, and the USA

'Hout and About' - A Hout Bay Heritage Walking Tour - 4 September 2022

'People of the Bridge' Available at Rand Club Book Faire

10 Steps to Creating a Digital Archive - Talk by David Larsen

100 Trees to be planted at the University of Fort Hare to celebrate Nelson Mandela's legacy

100 year Remembrance service of the Armistice World War 1 at Sappers Rus

115 Years since the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging

120 Year Commemoration of the South African War and Unveiling of the General Koos de la Rey Memorial

120th Anniversary of the Battle of Frederikstad

13 Building 13 Decades - Talk by Brett McDougall and Brian McKechnie

141st Commemoration of the Battle of Isandlwana

14th Annual Bathurst BookFair - 30 April 2017

1820 Settlers - A Bicentennial Tribute - Talk by Professor John Lambert

1918 Spanish Flu Exhibition

1922 Rand Revolt on the East Rand - Virtual Tour 20 February 2021

200 Years Celebration - National Library of South Africa

200th Anniversary of the Grahamstown Baptist Church - 14 March 2020

2017 Excavations at East Fort with HeritageworX

2017 Fish Hoek Valley Historical Association Quiz Evening

2017 Heritage Weekend Programme Released

2017 Iziko Museum Book Sale

2017 South African (Anglo-Boer) War Weekend at Kedar Heritage Lodge

2019 Information Sessions - MPhil in Conservation of the Built Environment (UCT)

2019 in_herit Festival at Iziko Museums of South Africa

2019 Johannesburg Library Bumper Book Sale

2019 JoziWalks Announced!

21 Years of Curating the Cube - Exhibition Opening

3 month exhibit of a collaborative art photography project inspired by Nelson Mandela

40 Years of Collecting with Standard Bank

40 Years Since Biko: Overcoming The Challenges in Township Communities

440 million years ago in the Cedarberg: fossils, extinctions and climatic shifts

50-90-100 Commemoration - Archives, scholars and bureaucrats

50th Anniversary of the Declaration of District Six as a Whites Only Area - Exhibition

67 Chairs in 67 Minutes at the Rand Club - 18 May 2025

7 votes that changed South Africa - Webinar with Richard Steyn & Prof Bill Nasson

75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz - 27 January 2020

80th Commemoration Marking the Patria Disaster and the Deportation to Mauritius

8th Annual James Mpanza Memorial Lecture - 24 September 2016

A 'Feast of Photography!' Models, Grafitti, Culture, History, Education and Architecture

A comparison of the Anglo-Boer War and the American Civil War - Talk by Kevin Garcia

A Day of Books & Art with James Findlay at the Rand Club

A Day of Stories from the Anglo-Boer War

A drive through Joburg’s automotive history - 27 March 2022

A False Bay History - Gustrouw and the Irish Village, Elwandle (At Sea) - 4 September 2024

A Grave Connection - A Look at the Rietfontein Hospital Graves

A guided tour of the markets of Warwick - 14 May 2022

A Heritage Walking Tour through Adderley Street and the Old CBD

A History of Geology through encounters with Table Mountain

A History of Geology through Encounters with Table Mountain - 25 March 2024

A Hout Bay Heritage Walking Tour - 24 April 2022

A Journey Along the Southern Railway Line - 1 September 2024

A Look At South Africa's Politics Through Posters

A Man Apart - A Supper Talk on Louis Botha by the renowned author Richard Steyn

A Man Apart - Richard Steyn talks on General Louis Botha

A new exhibition at the Iziko South African Museum showcases prehistoric stone tools from Cape Town’s Table Bay

A new season of spectacular Joburg gardens

A pioneering, family friendly Jazz Celebration at the Pioneer Museum in Pretoria

A Protracted Search for the Loneliest Woman in Africa - 21 June 2025

A Reflection on the life and work of Gertruida Brinkman, the first woman to graduate as an Architect in South Africa

A Sacred Place - The Yeoville Ridge - 2 September 2018

A significant nod to South African literary history

A site visit to Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter - 27 July 2019

A site visit to Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter - 4 August 2018

A Social History of Windsor Road Kalk Bay

A South African War discussion on Commandant Badenhorst and the Western Free State by Arnold van Dyk

A stroll around Linden - 21 October 2017

A tale of two fossils - Celebrating 80 years since the discovery of TM1511 and 70 years since the discovery of Mrs Ples

A talk by Dr Peter Nilssen on the discovery and findings of the Point of Origin Caves in Mossel Bay

A talk by Keith and Michelle Moodie of Grootvadersbosch

A Vintage Christmas at Yukon - 10 December 2016

A visit to Italian prisoners of war Zonderwater Military Cemetery and Church - 13 May 2017

A walk through historic Modderfontein - 3 September 2016

A walk through Kensington - 20 November 2016

A walk through one of the older parts of Johannesburg

A war with so much human interest - 19 March 2024

Abandoned Churches - New Book

Access to top quality Zulu hand work at very competitive prices

Accounts and Experience from the Italian POW Camp in Cullinan - 25 September 2025

Acknowledging intergenerational trauma and how it affects Khoi women - 9 August 2018

Activate Captivate Exhibition showcases unique collection of African art

Advanced Course in Ceramics: Technological Analysis - 6-10 March 2017

African World Heritage during a pandemic - 5 May 2021

Afternoon of Remembrance at Jeppe High School for Boys - 11 November 2017

All set for the 2018 Remembrance Sunday Service in Joburg - 11 November 2018

All the events for the 2018 JHF Heritage Weekend announced!

All the events from SAHRA's Heritage Week 2022

All the plans for the Fish Hoek Centenary 2018

All Three Doornfonteins - 15 May 2021

Allusions to Agriculturist Rituals in Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art? Lecture by Jeremy Hollmann

Almost Human - Homo naledi - 29 May 2017

Aluta Nova Festival of Museums 2021

Amazing Race Pilgrim's Rest - 3 April 2025

Among my Ancestors: the pursuit of family history - David Hilton-Barber

An Afternoon of Remembrance - Poppy Concert at the Johannesburg City Hall

An amble through the historic Fish Hoek CBD

An Archaeological Investigation of Later Stone Age sites in North Eastern Zimbabwe

An Encounter with Orange Grove - 23 June 2024

An exceptional heritage - the Ceramic Studio tiled art panels in 1930's Post Offices in the Eastern Cape

An illustrated history of surfing at Muizenberg - 24 April 2024

An intergenerational dialogue to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the capture of Nelson Mandela

An Introduction to the National Heritage Resources Act

An overview of slavery in the False Bay Area - Talk by Jolene Young

Analysing Holocaust photography: the “Auschwitz Album” - 4 June 2020

Ancient fortificated settlements: Frobenius at Mapungubwe - Dr Justine Wintjes

Ancient Life of The Eastern Cape

Ancient Sex - Tracking Gene Exchange in Our Ancestors

Andre Wedepohl Talk on the Battle of Nooitgedacht - 25 August 2018

Anglo Boer War Weekend - 2-4 December 2016

Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses and the traces soldiers leave behind - 19 November 2024

Anglo-Boer War Forts around Montagu - 1 August 2018

Anglo-Boer War Seminar - 8-10 May 2026

Anglo-Boer War Weekend 16-18 March 2018

Anglo-Boer Weekend Matjiesfontein - 16-18 March 2018

Anne Frank and Her Surprising Global Legacy - 8 June 2021

Anniversary Cricket Match Weekend in Matjiesfontein - 13-15 April 2018

Announcing the Historical Association of South Africa (HASA) Biennial Conference 20 - 22 June 2018

Annual Ghost Walk up Talana Hill - 20 October 2020

Annual Heritage Walk Constantia

Annual Salmon Van As and Fallen Comrades Wreath-Laying and Memorial Parade - 25 June 2017

Antarctic fossil bones: survivors of a mass extinction - Talk by Professor Roger Smith

Antarctica on a Tall Ship - Talk 31 July 2019

Anthropology collection tour, talk and ritual performance - 27 September 2024

Antiekmark (Antique Market) in the President's Yard

APHP Panel Discussion on Judgement affecting Heritage Practitioners

Archaeological encounters with recent Karoo History - Talk by Simon Hall

Archaeological encounters with recent Karoo history Professor Simon Hall

Archaeological Fieldwork at Waterfall Bluff Rock Shelter - Call for volunteers

Archaeological Society of South Africa - Northern Branch presents its Annual Symposium 2017 - Trading places - Connecting the world

Archaeologists push the boundaries of science - 19 November 2022

Archaeology at Verlorenkloof - 28-30 October 2016

Archaeology in the imagination of India - A Lecture by Professor Dilip Menon

Architect and Empire - The Life, Architecture and Legacy of Sir Herbert Baker

Architectural Tour of Cape Town City Hall - 12 March 2022

Architecture archives - public lecture

Architecture Prize-giving & Exhibition 2017 - University of Pretoria

Architecture ZA 2018 - Memory and Resilience

archive space #1 Franco Frescura - A lifetime documenting vernacular space in Southern Africa

Archives Awareness Week - 5-9 May 2025

Archives Awareness Week 2017

Archives Awareness Week 2018

ArchSoc Symposium 2024: Big Digs, Big Ideas

Archsoc Tour to central Asia 2023

Are you passionate about Heidelberg?

Arms Collectors Fair 2018 at the Ditsong National Museum of Military History

Around the Cape - an illustrated lecture by Gabriel Athiros

Around the Cape - An illustrated talk by Gabriel Athiros

Around the Cape - Talk by Gabriel Athiros

Art and Architecture: Salt River guided walking tour - 13 March 2021

Art Deco Architecture of East London - 15 February 2022

Art Deco Cape Town - 19 January 2022

Art Deco Cape Town - Virtual Tour 12 September 2020

Art Deco Central Cape Town - 11 November 2020

Art Deco Heritage of the Eastern Cape - Talk by William Martinson

Art Deco meets African Riviera - 14 November 2021

Art Deco on the Doorstep of the Rand Club

Art Deco Tour of Cape Town with Dr André van Graan

Art Month in full swing at Welgemeend heritage site in Cape Town

Art, Immigrants and the Changing Face of Louis Botha Avenue

ASAPA Biennial Conference - Kimberley 2019

ASAPA Past Student Development Workshop - Lesotho 2018

Asmara Architecture Exhibition: “Asmara – Africa’s Secret Modernist City”

Aspects of life and ancestry of four women from the Iron Age of KwaZulu-Natal - Talk by Dr Gavin Whitelaw

Auction - The Africana Library of the Frikkie Botha

Auction of scarce maps and charts of the African continent, Southern Africa and surrounding oceans - 11-18 April 2024

Auction viewing day and Johannesburg mini book fair

Back to the 80s - Johannesburg Bus Tour

Baker and His Contemporaries - 16 October 2021

Banned Books Day - 1 October 2022

Banned Books Event - 2 October 2021

Bantu Authorities - Apartheid’s System of Race and Ethnicity

Barberton Remembrance Parade 2019

Barnato Park - Ghosts of my Childhood - Virtual Tour

Bathurst Bookfair - 30 April 2023

Bathurst Historical Trail - 27 August 2024

Bathurst Historical Trail Walk - 17 February 2024

Bathurst Historical Trails - 4 & 9 July 2025

Battle for the Cape 1778 - 1806 - Talk by Ian van Oordt

Battle of Bangui Book Launch - 30 October 2021

Battle of Blaauwberg 10km Walk and Commemoration Event - 18 January 2020

Battle of Blaauwberg Walk - 6 March 2021

Battle of Britain - 85th Anniversary Commemorative and Remembrance Service - 14 September 2025

Battle of Britain Commemoration and Remembrance Service - 15 September 2024

Battle of Diamond Hill Tour - 23 September 2020

Battle of Nooitgedacht Tour - 21 March 2021

Battle of Square Hill and the role of the Cape Corps during World War One - Exhibition Opening

Battlefield Ghost Adventure Tour - 10-11 October 2020

Battlefield Tour 2017

Battlefield Tours within an hour’s drive of Johannesburg

Battles of Silkaatsnek - 27 March 2021

Batubatse Heritage Tour - 4-5 May 2019

Beautiful gardens and homes of The Valley Road, Parktown - 20 November 2021

Beechwood Gardens - Annual Open Gardens and Charity Lunch

Beginner's Course in Genealogical Research

Behind the Castle - The early estates and homesteads of District Six - Talk by Jim Hislop

Behind the Scenes at an Architectural Archive - 19 October 2022

Berea Walk (the good, the bad and the ugly) - 23 June 2021

Between imperialism and nationalism: Jan Smuts 1890-1910 - Talk 17 May 2023

Beyond the Trees - The Pines and Villa Arcadia - 4 June 2022

Big 5 Safari and Tour to Matjiesfontein - 28-30 August 2021

Big issues to be discussed at the 2019 APHP Conference

Big speakers at GIfA Heritage Day Event

Big Summer Book Sale - Fourthwall Books

Biography of South Africa’s most iconic dinosaur - Robert Broom Memorial Lecture 2022

Biometric capitalism and the future of history

Black Modernisms in South Africa (1940 - 1990) - An Extraordinary Exhibition

Blue Plaque to Celebrate the Life of Seth Mazibuko

Blue Plaque Unveiling - Battle of Dwarsvlei

Blue Plaque Unveiling - Battle of Nooitgedacht

Blue Plaque Unveiling - Sappersrus

Bo-Kaap Heritage Festival 2018

Boekbedonnerd Richmond Book Festival - 31 October - 2 November 2024

Boer & Brit - 15 April 2023

Boer & Brit - 30 March 2024

Boer & Brit Day - 12 April 2025

Bonanza Book Sale at Sandton Library

Book and Antique Map Fair - 13 February 2016

Book Bash in Recreation Road Fish Hoek

Book Binding Workshop - 12 February 2021

Book Launch - "The Annotated OLD FOURLEGS: The updated story of the Coelacanth" by Mike Bruton

Book Launch - Archives of Times Past: Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History - 14 May 2022

Book Launch - Black Sacrifice: The Sinking of the SS Mendi

Book Launch - Conversations with Uncle O.R. Tambo - Childhood Memoirs in Exile

Book Launch - Cradle of Life by Vincent Carruthers

Book Launch - Creating Coromandel: Marco Zanuso in South Africa

Book Launch - Cultures, Cures and Curiosities

Book Launch - Curator and Crusader

Book Launch - Fair Game - A Hidden History of the Kruger National Park

Book Launch - From Soup to Nuts - A Memoir by Nigel Henson - 22 November 2022

Book Launch - Guide to Sieges of South Africa

Book Launch - Historical Lowveld Across the Ages

Book Launch - Hitler's Spies - 12 June 2021

Book Launch - Illustrated History of Hartbeespoort Dam - 28 June 2022

Book Launch - In Search of Nongqawuse: A new perspective on this epic South African tale - 10 May 2025

Book Launch - Indoda Ebisithanda: "The Man who Loved Us" The Rev James Laing among the amaXhosa, 1831-1836

Book Launch - Kariba

Book Launch - Learning Zulu -A Secret History of Language in South Africa

Book Launch - North End Days!

Book Launch - Reappraising the Life and Legacy of Jan C Smuts - 14 September 2024

Book Launch - Sir Herbert Baker: A Biography by John Stewart

Book Launch - Stories of Potchefstroom - 19 July 2018

Book Launch - The Buried Man: A Life of H Rider Haggard - 23 July 2025

Book Launch - The Cape Radicals - Intellectual and political thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s-1960s

Book Launch - The Johannesburg Gas Works

Book Launch - The Lion of Azania, a biography of Zephania Mothopeng

Book Launch - The Roads to Hillbrow - 31 August 2022

Book Launch - Triumph and Tragedy: Trappist Missions in South Africa

Book Launch - Visionary Animal - Rock Art from Southern Africa

Book Launch - Yevgeny Avgustus. A Russian Fighting for the Boer Cause

Book Launch: Breakthrough - The Struggles and Secret Talks that Brought Apartheid South Africa To The Negotiating Table

Book Launch: Illustrated Glossary of Southern African Architectural Terms AND isiShweshwe

Book Launch: In One Era and Out of the Other by Glenn Babb

Book now for the Mooifontein Public Archaeology Project

Bookdealers are honoured to be selling the balance of stock of renowned bookshop Thorolds

Bookdealers sale of the library of the late Dr Beric Croome

Books, Maps and Architectural Treasures at the Christmas Book Faire - 8 December 2018

Bopedi Heritage Festival 2017

Border Cave Botanicals: Plants for Poison, Pleasure and other Purposes

Border Historical Society Visit to Anderson Museum Dordrecht

Boschendal’s Social History – Hidden Lives - 22 September 2021

Bosman - Khaki or Boer?

Bosman, Birth Certificates and other Fictions by Tim Sandham - 9 August 2022

Botanical tour of Arderne Gardens & Wynberg Park - 3 November 2018

Braai Day at The View - 5 April 2025

Braamfontein Spruit Bike Tour - 28 November 2022

Braamfontein Spruit Trust to visit Lindfield Victorian House Museum

Braamfontein Spruit Walking Tour

Brenda Sheperd talks on The 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the SS Mendi

Brian McKechnie and Jo Buitendach reveal the secrets of the Carlton

Brief and unfinished history of the old south of Johannesburg - 24 February 2022

Brief Biographies of Foresters who contributed towards the protection of the indigenous forests of the Garden Route

Bring and Share with the Western Cape Museum Educator Group

Bring colour back to The Alhambra Theatre this Mandela Day

Bring the kids to the Natural History Museum

Brixton Fietas Heritage Trek - 1 July 2018

Building the Mother City - Talk 3 April 2023

Building the Nation: Architecture and planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after 1960

Bult Walk - 25 September 2017

Bumper Book Sale - Friends of Johannesburg Public Libraries

Bumper Book Sale 6-7 October 2018 (Friends of the Johannesburg Public Libraries)

Bus tour of heritage sites around Hartbeespoort

Bus Tour of historic 'Dube' - 11 November 2017

Bus Tour of the Louis Botha Corridor of Freedom - 4 March 2017

Bus tour to the stone-walled ruins of the Suikerbosrand

Bus Tour to Vredefort Dome with Professor Roger Gibson - 27 August 2022

Bushman Rock Shelter - Talk by Aurore Val

Call for nominations - Cultural Affairs Awards Western Cape

Call For Papers - SAVAH Conference 2016

Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age” South Africa, c1966-1979’

Call for Photographs and Memories of Dundee

Call to Trowels - Enroll for the 2016 East Fort Archaeological Project!

Calling all teachers! Take your students on a Joburg Heritage tour

Can Themba Symposium at the Market Theatre - 13 September 2018

Canteen Kopje Excursion

Canteen Kopje: a 21st century Stone Age site - A talk by Dr Matt Lotter

Cape Dutch architecture's Arts & Crafts' revival during the South Africa's Union and the British Empire - 26 May 2021

Cape of Good Hope Valley Farms, Dutch & British from 1652 to 1900 A virtual tour, exploring storied farms & historic sites - 26 October 2024

Cape of Good Hope's History - Talk by Roger Stewart

Cape Town Art Deco Walking Tour - 26 October 2022

Cape Town City History Walking Tours

Cape Town City Walking History Tours 2021

Cape Town Theatres - Past, Present and Hidden

Cape Town Waterfront History Tour - July and September 2021

Cape Town's Link to the Annual Act of Remembrance - 28 November 2018

Carol Hardijzer at the Rand Club - The history of post-mortem photography - 26 March 2022

Cathedrals of Industry Bus Tour - 4 September 2016

Celebrate Cradock – An Evening of Storytelling with Author and Historian Dr Dean Allen

Celebrate Heritage Day at The Castle - 24 & 25 September 2021

Celebrate Heritage Month in Muizenberg

Celebrate Joburg’s remarkable women on Woman’s Day!

Celebrate Nelly Edwards – Johannesburg’s first practising female architect - 20 August 2022

Celebrating 120 years of Cinema in Africa

Celebrating our Heritage through the "AfrICAN Children of the Year Awards 2018"

Celebrating our Human Rights at the Phansi Museum

Celebrating our new Blue Plaques on Heritage Day

Celebrating the lives of South African celebs cemetery style - 14 November 2020

Cemeteries Tour - 28 June 2025

Cemetery Cleanup at Clumber Church - 22 July 2017

Cemetery Recording Geduld Cemetery

Centenary Exhibition Opening and Book Launch - 28 November 2022

Centenary Object and Lecture: Gold-Bearing Quartz. Lecture by Prof Richard Viljoen

Centenary Objects & Public Lecture: Anteosaurus Magnificus presented by Professor Bruce Rubidge

Charity walk to raise funds for the refurbishment of Addington Children’s Hospital - 20 October 2022

Chatsworth Book & Film Festival - 4-6 November 2022

Check out these map dealers this Saturday - 8 April 2017

Cherry Steam Train Festival 2021

Children of Hope Book Launch at Cory Library

Children’s clothing during the South African War - 30 June 2022

Christmas at Freedom Park 2015

Christmas Book Sale Bonanza Sandton

Church Square Tours Very Popular

Church Tourism in South Africa - A Travel Odyssey - 29 March 2017

Church Tourism in South Africa – A Travel Odyssey - Talk by Philippe Menache

Churches in Gauteng - Talk by Philippe Menache

City Beautiful on the Rand - Lutyens in South Africa - 13 August 2020

Civilian life in Pretoria before, during and after British occupation during the Boer War in 1900 - 26 October 2024

Clarens presents 2024 Heritage Symposium

Cleaning the graves in the Military Circle in Braamfontein Cemetery - 12 June 2022

Clumber Church - Celebrating 150 Years!

Coach Tour of Historic Heidelberg - 29 September 2018

Colloquium on graves of the victims of conflict

Colonial Homes and Buildings on the Yaverland Road and White River

Colours from the Past at Origins Centre - 7 December 2019

Come and enjoy an afternoon talk on Blue Plaques... achievements, pitfalls and possibilities

Come and see this exhibition and be inspired by the next generation of students

Come and watch the FNB Joburg 10k CityRun on Heritage Day

Come celebrate Mpumalanga Heritage's 10th Birthday

Come celebrate the 24th anniversary of West Coast Fossil Park - 22 September 2022

Come explore the heritage, stories and people of Swellendam - HASA Symposium 2021

Come face to face with Modderfontein - 24 September 2024

Come see the original Paranthropus robustus - 27 August 2022

Commemorate the 120th anniversary of the Anglo-Boer War - 22 October 2022

Commemorating 35 Years of Nelson Mandela’s Release - 11 February 2025

Commemorating the 222 Anniversary of the Battle of Muizenberg

Commemorating the centenary of the sinking of the SS Mendi at Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History

Commemoration of Peace Treaty of Vereeniging (120 Years)

Commemoration of the Battle of Amajuba - 27 February 2019

Commemorative Lecture - 80 Years after Kristallnacht

Company’s Garden Trees & Design - 5 November 2022

Company’s Garden Walking Tour - 19 January 2017

Conference on Children and Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage - 8-9 September 2016

Confronting Vestiges of the Colonial Landscape in Africa - Call for Papers

Conquer the Cradle Battlefields Tour - 29 August 2020

Constitution Hill's Soul Speaks - 29 August 2022

Contested Rights to Land - A talk by Professor Peter Delius

Conversation about Johannesburg architecture and books - 7 March 2026

Country Churches of South Africa (with an emphasis on the North West)

Courageous Conversations - Building a Cohesive Society - 4 November 2022

Courageous Pilots of the First World War - Presentation by Cdr Mac Bisset

Cradling life - the wonders of the Cradle-Magaliesberg environs - 1 December 2020

Creation and Conservation of objects close to our hearts - 25 July 2018

Credo Mutwa Revisited

Crown Mines Reburial at Brixton Cemetery

Culture Led Placemaking in Johannesburg - 19 October 2019

Daily Inner City Joburg Tours Launched

Darwin's visit to the Cape of Good Hope in 1836 - 26 July 2025

Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins

David Adjaye Heritage, Memory & Making Place - 1 September 2017

Day of the Engines - 6 April 2024

De Wet's Great Escape - 26 September 2020

De Wet’s Escape over the Magaliesberg – join the hike?

Dealing with apartheid era monuments and exploring new models for memorialisation

Dean Allen Matjiesfontein Tours - 20 or 25 April 2021

Dean Allen Talk at Historic Steenberg - 5 March 2020

Dean Allen Talk with 'Captain Fantastic' Jean de Villiers 21 May at 19:30

Dean Allen's Frontier Land - Oct & Nov 2022

December 2016 Mini Book Fair and Online Book Auction

Decolonising African Museums - What does it mean?

Decolonising Conservation, One Heritage Place at a Time

Definitive Dube - Doctors, Directors and Detainees - 19 March 2022

Delta Park – Revisit the 1930s - 23 April 2022

Delville Wood Centenary Tour

Delville Wood Commemorative Weekend - 15-17 July 2022

Delville Wood Memorial - Talk by Prof Kathy Munro

Demystifying the National Heritage Resources Act - 17 February 2018

Depictions of Elephant vocalisations in Cederberg Rock Paintings: Somatogenisis - Talk by Andrew Paterson & John Parkington

Designing Men - Pioneering Architects of Johannesburg - 24 July 2021

Diagonal Street and the Struggle - 24 September 2022

Diamond Hill / Donkerhoek Battlefield Day Tour - 23 May 2021

Diamond Hill Battlefield Tour - 18 April 2021

Diamonds and Africa’s special place on the planet - Talk by Nick Norman

Die stem van grond in die boukuns - A talk by Gawie and Gwen Fagan

Digital Heritage Documentation, Methods, Examples and Challenges - Talk by by Emeritus Professor Heinz Rüther

Digitisation at the National Archives and Records of South Africa - Lessons Learned - 1 July 2022

Dinosaur eggs and embryos: Centenary Objects Exhibition - 22 October 2022

Discover Durban's Whaling History - 5 May 2024

Discover Springs Art Deco - A Walk and Talk with Jeffrey Cole

Discover the archaelogical sites of Peers and Tunnel Caves in the Fish Hoek hills

Discover the history of Melville - 25 February 2018

Discover the history of the Joburg Zoo - Free Heritage Tours

Discover the magic of Durban Point

Discover the oldest mission station in Southern Africa this Heritage Day

Discover the positions of the Long Tom cannons during the epic battle of Berg-en-Dal - 11 August 2018

Discover the rich history of the Batubatse people and their region of origin

Discussion on Draft Amendment to Museums Bill

Discussion on the Anson Square Judgement - APHP event

Discussion with the author of Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

Disputed Pasts, Fractured Futures and the Work of History - Conference of the Southern African Historical Society

Ditsong Museums Heritage Day Celebrations 2019

Ditsong Public Lecture - Women Heroines and Patriots - 30 September 2019

Diverse and Dynamic - exploring the delights of Brixton - 18 June 2022

DNA Ancestry Testing Experience and Briefing Session

Do you have any historic books or antique maps around the house?

Doctoral School in Urban Anthropology, Cape Town July-August 2017

Documenting Deep History - Vassa Talk by Wouter Fourie

Does anyone have details on 55 St Georges Mall, Cape Town?

Does anyone know the source of this photograph?

Does anyone have any recollection of the origins of the Jacaranda Hospital / Magnolia Clinic?

Does South Africa hold the key to our human origins? From Taung to Neo - Our hominin fossil heritage

Don't miss the Nita Spilhaus exhibition in Sandton

Donning Aprons and Oven Gloves for Pet Recipes in Parktown - 7 August 2021

Double dose of heritage at Modderfontein this Heritage Day

Double-Header Steam - Sisters Together - Ceres Rail Company Event 9-12 March 2016

Download the Programme for the 2019 HASA National Heritage Symposium

Downtown Joburg - Henry Brown Marshall's CBD - 12 November 2022

Downtown Joburg through artist's eyes - talk by James Delaney

Dr Dean Allen Matjiesfontein Tour Packages - August September 2017

Draaibosch Memorial - Unveiling of Plaque: 24 September 2022

Drawings and paintings by talented British painter, explorer and naturalist go on show

Dreams & Dust Book Launch - 20 August 2023

Driefontein Farmhouse (Wilhelmi House) Brainstorming Session - 2 September 2017

Drunks, Quacks and Vagabonds - 29 May 2021

Dumps Willis Memorial Lecture: Bill Rice - Some Naval Ships of the First World War period from the Willis Collection

Durbanville Heritage Society AGM (2023) with talk on the diversity of local heritage

Durbanville Heritage Society commemorates Heritage Day 2021

Durbanville Heritage Society visit to Sondagsfontein Farm - 21 March 2020

Durban’s Domestic Architecture, 1870-1930

EA&DP/HWC Operational Agreement for the co-ordination of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and Heritage Impact Assessments (HIAs)

Eames: the Architect and Painter - Short Film Screening

Early Dutch and English settlers in Plettenberg Bay - 6 October 2022

Early Iron Age Animal Resources and Trade in the Kruger National Park - 20 March 2025

East Fort Archaeology Project - July 2021

East Fort Public Archaeology Project - 5-11 July 2025

East Fort Public Archaeology Project - June 2023

East London Hotels - 19 October 2021

Eastern Border Farmers Association 100 Year Open Day Celebrations

Eastern Cape History Organisations Day - 11 May 2019

Eaton for Africa

Edoardo Villa House Tour - 20 January 2018

Effects of the Holocaust and war on German society, family, and German post-war generations - Talk by Prof Krondorfer

Elands Valley Historical Outing

Elise Bishop's new book - a celebration of Graaff-Reinet and Graafrikaans

Embassy to the San with Dr Chris Low - 21 October 2022

Emoyeni to Villa Arcadia - Heritage Tour 28 January 2017

Empowering Public Life in Church Square Cape Town

End of 2021 outing to Braamfontein cemetery

End of an era for historical bridge - 24 February 2022

End of year meeting and talk by Vicky Heunis (Friends of the War Museum)

Enjoy a Steam Train Ride around Pretoria - 29 July 2018

Epic Tour of Kimberley

Eugene Marais - The man, the genius

Eureka City and Bray's Golden Quarry - 9 November 2024

Event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth year of Jan and Isie Smuts

Excavation opportunity, open to the public!

Exclusive Art and Dinner evening at Ellerman House

Exclusive Tour of the most iconic Modernist home in the Cape Winelands

Exhibition 'Joburg Smalls'

Exhibition - "Gusen. Granite & Death, Memory & Oblivion"

Exhibition - David Goldblatt - The Pursuit of Values

Exhibition - The Gift of Seeing History - The Legacy of Dr Arthur David Bensusan

Exhibition and Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Sophiatown Forced Removals - 8 February 2025

Exhibition of Final Year Architecture Students - University of Pretoria (2015)

Exhibition Opening - South Africa: World War One - 11 November 2022

Exhibition Opening - Land Dispossession in the Northern Cape

Exhibition opening and launch of Paul Weinberg‘s book 'Traces and Tracks'

Exhibition Opening: Places in Me - The Voices of Platfontein's Youth - 15 March 2025

Exhibition walkabouts with Professor Revil Mason

Expert to lead Modderfontein heritage walk - 17 May 2025

Explore a hidden corner of Parktown - 9 June 2018

Explore Durban’s glorious Art Deco Heritage - 1 August 2020

Explore Five Historic Churches with Potchefstroom Heritage

Explore Joburg's Tallest Buildings - 31 July 2016

Explore Johannesburg's Herbert Baker Architecture - Walking Tour - 14 August 2016

Explore Johannesburg’s old mining and financial district with Eric Itzkin

Explore Johannesburg’s uneasy relationship with its past and future

Explore the Bo-Kaap! Guided tour led by Faried Basier - 20 March 2018

Explore the cultural attractions of the V&A Waterfront's Silo District - 3 November 2022

Explore the Heritage of Belfast - 14 May 2022

Explore the Market Theatre - 5 March 2022

Explore the museums of the V&A Waterfront after dark

Explore the world of the Randlords in Parktown with Lucille Davie

Explorer William Burchell in Joburg - 2 June 2023

Exploring Servant Leadership as Part of Our Heritage

Exploring the Iconic Architecture and History of Durban's Historic Landmarks

Exploring the Mining Heritage of the Spekboom River Valley - 9 July 2022

Exploring the Natural Wonders of the West Coast - 12 October 2021

Extraordinary South African Women from the past - Talk by Roger Webster

Facing Difficult Pasts: Reflecting on History in the Present

Fact and Fable walk around Modderfontein - 18 May 2024

Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins - The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid - Online Book Launch

Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins Colloquium

Family Hike at Joburg's hidden 'Gem' - The Wilds!

Farms of the Darling District - VASSA Outing 29 July 2017

Farmstead Talk at The Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve

Fascinating Fordsburg - 24 September 2022

Fascinating illustrated talks by Professor Mike Bruton

Female clothing during the SA War (Anglo Boer War) 1899 - 1902

Fete and Parade hosted by the Moth Ex-Servicemen's Cottage Association

Fieldtrip Fair 2016

Fietas to Fordsburg - 26 November 2022

Fietas to Fordsburg tour - 25 February 2020

Filipino artist Pancho Piano to create mural in Kalk Bay honouring 19th century Filipino seafarers

Film Screening - Who Will Write Our History

Film Screening of 'REM' - A Documentary by Tomas Koolhaas

Film screening on the history of the Union-Castle Line

Final Book Faire of 2022 at the Rand Club - 5 November 2022

Final Joburg Graffiti and Street Art Tours of 2019

Find out about the discovery that paved the way for the recent declaration of the Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains as a World Heritage Site

Finding Billy Grant's Buildings - 10 August 2022

Finding Herstory: Tracing indigenous and enslaved women in the Archives - 8 August 2025

Finding Old Fourlegs - The updated dramatic story of the Coelacanth

Finding the Dead - 1922 Strike - Talk by SJ de Klerk

First Blue Plaque for the Magaliesberg Biosphere!

First Blue Plaques for Modderfontein

First book in 30 years covering the general history of Potchefstroom!

First Sandton Grand Book Sale of 2019

Fish Hoek Historical Quiz Night 2018

Fish Hoek Valley Historical Association AGM

Fish Hoek Valley Historical Association AGM including talk by Dan Sleigh

Fish Hoek Valley Historical Association AGM including talk by Mike Walker

Fish Hoek Valley Quiz 2016

Fishhoek's Annual Historic Photo Puzzle Evening

Five million year old carnivores from the West Coast Fossil Park - Talk by Dr Alberto Valenciano

Florence - A Play by Myer Taub

Florida Road Walk - 30 April 2024

Forced Removals in Plettenberg Bay - Talk 12 July 2018

Forest Town Book Sale - 27 August 2016

Forgotten Brakpan - An Exploration of Brakpan's Undiscovered Heritage

Forgotten Temples, Monuments and Bridges of Klipfontein and Syferfontein - 23 June 2018

Forgotten Trails across the Midlands of KZN - Talk by Annalie Kleinoog

Fort Klapperkop celebrates 120 years

Fossil feet and the evolution of bipedalism in the human lineage - 7 February 2019

Fossil Trip to Nieu Bethesda and Ganora Guest Farm - July 2017

Four distinguished professors engage in critical reflection on Nelson Mandela's legacy

Four Heritage Homes of Houghton - 28 August 2022

Fourth Watercourse History Festival in Plettenberg Bay - 26-29 April 2022

François Le Vaillant’s Travels into the Interior of Africa: Fact or Fiction?

Free Entrance to SAAF Museum at Ysterplaat - 10 & 17 December 2022

Free Entry to the Chavonnes Battery Museum - 1-2 May 2016

Free Screening of "Saving Auschwitz" - 15 February 2018

Free tours of the Stellenbosch University Museum - Heritage Month 2016

Free Virtual Tour of UP Campus

Free Webinar on Showcasing your Digital Archive using AM Quartex - 17 November 2023

Freedom Park Ungasali International Storytelling Festival

French Corb Tour - 11-24 September 2017

Fridays at Rand Club

Friends of the Barbeton Museum to host World Heritage Site celebration

Friends of the East London Museum - Virtual Talks 2021

Friends of the Johannesburg Public Libraries Bumper Book Sale 2017

Friends of the Rail Open Day 2017

From Bosch to Bosch - A Free Walking Tour through the Southern Suburbs - 27 March 2022

From Cave to Castle with David Bristow - 6 December 2022

From Fossils to the future: exploring the wonders of the Magaliesberg landscape - 24 August 2022

From Horse Drawn to Electric Current: The story of Joburg Trams - Exhibition Launch 24 May 2018

From Soweto Uprising to Number 4 - A Prisoner's Journey - 11 June 2022

From the Galloway Pony Club to the Rea Vaya - A short history of Auckland Park enjoyed at luncheon

From the Heart: Personal Perspectives on the WAM Collection

Fugitives Trail Walk Weekend - 2-4 September 2022

Fun Run around Pretoria this Heritage Day

Fun Walk to celebrate Orlando High School's 80th Birthday

Fundraiser and Lecture - The Brave Men of the SS Mendi

Gandhi in Joburg Tour - 6 August 2022

Gandhi Square East Precinct - Public Participation Exhibition

Gandhi's 149th Birthday Celebration

Genadendal to host 2016 HASA heritage symposium

Genealogical Research for Beginners - 15 May 2021

Genealogical Research for Beginners - 19 June 2021

Genealogy and Family Heritage Festival 2017

Gentrified townscapes and their significance as heritage: the case of Newlands Village

Geoheritage and Battlefield tours of the Magaliesberg

Geoheritage at the 35th International Geology Conference (Cape Town)

Geology of the Magaliesberg - Talk by Morris and Richard Viljoen

Geology of the Vredefort Dome - 14 June 2025

Geology Talk and Walk at Smuts House Museum - 5 April 2025

Gerhard Moerdyk Memorial Lecture - 29 March 2017

Ghost Tour of Sammy Marks Museum - 2 December 2022

GIfA Heritage Talk - Mohandas Gandhi, Sonja Schlessin and Hermann Kallenbach - 25 May 2022

GIfA Tour - Wits Anthropology Museum

Glenshiel Christmas Fair 2017

Gold History Walks 2018

Golden Shield Heritage Awards 2016

Golden Shield Heritage Awards Finalists 2023 announced

Good Hope - South Africa and The Netherlands from 1600

Government hosts 30th Anniversary of Samora Machel’s tragic death

Graaff-Reinet Heritage Walks

Grand Book Sale Sandton - 28 October 2016

Grand launch of the Zwipi Underground Bar

Grave Encounters - A talk by Tim Hart

Grave matters: Holy Trinity graveyard tells some stories - 20 April 2026

Great heritage talks at the Lowveld Book Festival - 18-19 August 2018

Great South African and African Inventions

Groot Phesantekraal: Past, Present & Future - 23 November 2024

Groote Schuur Mansion Museum Tour with Dr Rayda Becker - 15 April 2025

Guest Lecture: The Restoration of Aiton Court - 24 August 2022

Guided Tour of Barberton's Famous Makhonjwa GeoTrail

Guided Tour of Braamfontein Cemetery

Guided tour of the District Six Museum - 24 April 2018

Guided tour of the historical Rust en Vreude building - 24 September 2022

Guided Tour of the Holocaust Museum - 19 July 2017

Guided Tour of the Taalmonument - 24 September 2025

Guided tour through the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers Museum and more - Heritage Day 2016

Guided visit to Groote Schuur Estate with restoration expert - 27 November 2018

Guided visit to Pniel - 19 November 2022

Guided visit to the Lutheran Church Strand Street - 16 August 2022

Guided walk of UCT’s Upper Campus and tour of the Special Collections Library - 4 July 2019

Guided walk through Alexandra - South Africa’s oldest township

Guided walk through the inner-city’s literary history - 1 September 2018

Guidelines for Improved Land Administration - UCT Course

Halloween Battlefields Tour - 31 October - 1 November 2020

Halls / Mataffin Outing with Mpumalanga Heritage

Hartbeespoort Om die Dam Heritage Bus Tour - 19 September 2018

Harties 100th Year Celebration

HASA Heritage Symposium - 13-16 October 2025

HASA Symposium 2016

HASA Symposium 2019 (Tulbagh) - Save the Date

HASA Symposium 2022 - Final Programme Released

HASA Symposium 2022 - Provisional Programme Released

HASA Symposium 2024

HASA Symposium Programme announced

HASA's 22nd Annual Symposium - 12-14 October 2023

Headrests of Southern Africa, the Architecture of Sleep - Book Launch 30 April 2022

Heart of Cape Town Museum Visit - 25 February 2019

Heidelberg Heritage Day Tours 2022

Heidelberg Heritage Museum Tour - 9 April 2022

Heidelberg Heritage Tours - September 2024

Heidelberg, Gauteng, to host national heritage symposium

Heilbron Riemland Museum Kultuurdag 2016

Help clean Braamfontein Cemetery - November 2019

Help clean up Brixton Cemetery this Mandela Day

Help clean up the Caledonian Stadium

Help decide the future of the Simon's Town Museum

Help rebuild the Toll House - Wine Tasting Fundraiser

Herbert Baker in Mountain View - 26 November 2022

Herbert Baker – Man of Kent to Architect of Empire - 25 June 2022

Heritage and Museums Orientation Workshop at the Benoni Museum

Heritage and Public Engagement: An Afternoon Workshop for Historians and Heritage Professionals

Heritage attractions invited to exhibit at 2016 Fieldtrip Fair

Heritage Book Fair White River - 13 April 2024

Heritage Building Tour - Children’s Memorial Institute

Heritage Cream Tea at Yukon - 18 September 2022

Heritage Day celebrated at Kaditshwene

Heritage Day Events in Simon's Town

Heritage Digital Campus 2019 in September includes Africa's First IIIF Workshop

Heritage Digital Campus 2019 includes Africa's First IIIF Workshop

Heritage Hard Talk presented by the Mandela Bay Heritage Trust

Heritage High Tea at Reinet House - 26 October 2024

Heritage Hike - Linksfield Ridge and Harvey Nature Reserve

Heritage Houghton - A beautiful past and an uncertain future

Heritage Houghton - Boom or Bust - 22 May 2021

Heritage Impact Assessment Workshop with Heritage Practitioners

Heritage Issues in Southern Africa’s Changing Inner City Environments - 7 November 2024

Heritage lecture on Tsietsi Mashinini

Heritage Month in Muizenberg

Heritage Outing to Helvetia and Elandshoogte - 9 August 2025

Heritage Outing to Stellenbosch - 28 June 2025

Heritage Paper Conservation Workshop - 26-30 May 2025

Heritage Plaque for 1788 Timbershed in Plettenberg Bay - 24 September 2016

Heritage Resources Management CPD Course at UCT

Heritage Talk - Development and functional anatomy of Homo naledi's postcranial skeleton

Heritage Talk - The Cradle of Life - Story of the Magaliesberg and Cradle of Humankind

Heritage Tour of Kensington - 15 May 2016

Heritage Tour of New Doornfontein - 13 May 2017

Heritage Tour to Sri Lanka

Heritage Tours of Durban - August - November 2017

Heritage Tours of the Joburg Zoo

Heritage Treasure Hunt 2021

Heritage Treasures of Toppieshoek - 13 April 2024

Heritage Walk around Historic Barberton

Heritage Walking Tour through the V&A Waterfront - 5 June 2022

Heritage Weekend - Big Book Sale 2022

Heritage Weekend Big Book Sale - 14-15 September 2024

Heritage Weekend Big Book Sale 2023

Heritage, History and Blue Plaques - A Talk by Prof Kathy Munro

Heroes of South African Military Aviation - 9 November 2024

Herstory Lost in Memory - The amnesia on the commemoration of black African women in the South African War

Hidden History of the Kruger National Park - 16 January 2021

Hidden Parktown - The Pines and Villa Arcadia - 14 April 2019

Hidden Secrets of Cape Town - Talk 25 July 2018

Hidden Treasures of the Rand Club and South Africa - 14 May 2022

High Society - Glenshiel and Neighbours - 27 August 2022

High Tea at the Rand Club this Spring

Highland Giant Thighbone Exhibition

Highlights of the 2018 HASA Symposium in Barberton

Hike along the Historic Parktown Ridge and Beyond - 10 June 2017

Hike the Linksfield Ridge through the Harvey Nature Reserve

Historian Dr Dean Allen in conversation with “The Class of 1995”

Historian Dr Dean Allen in Conversation with Bryan Habana - 4 June 2020

Historian Dr Dean Allen Presents: ‘Empire, War and Cricket’ – The Amazing Story of Matjiesfontein - 26 July 2020

Historian Dr. Dean Allen in conversation with Tendai "Beast" Mtawarira

Historian Dr. Dean Allen in conversation with Victor Matfield - 25 June 2020

Historian Dr. Dean Allen Presents: 10 Years On - The Legacy of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa

Historians without Borders: The Use and Abuse of History in Conflict, International Conference

Historic church where Winnie got married to host a memorial service

Historic Fairview and Troyeville Meander - 3 October 2021

Historic houses in the green transition - 11 February 2022

Historic Lesseyton Methodist Seminary to harmonise and unify the community through celebration of its heritage

Historic Movie - With Cobham to the Cape 1926

Historic Movie Screening - The End of the Line (History of the Union Castle Line) - 25 February 2019

Historic Movie Screening - The Last Hurrah - South Africa and the Royal Tour of 1947

Historic Suburbs by Bike - 27 August 2022

Historic Tour of Nelspruit - 8 February 2020

Historic Views on the Mines - 4 December 2019

Historical outing to Kaapsehoop

Historical Tour of Skukuza Rest Camp - 8 June 2024

History Exhibition - Prof Robert Sobukwe

History of Cape Town’s Docks - Talk by Brian Ingpen

History of Filipino community recognized in Kalk Bay!

History of Healdtown, the school that produced Nelson Mandela - 12 April 2025

History of Jacaranda trees in Pretoria - 14 October 2021

History of Jeppestown - 4 September 2021

History that Hurt - Forced Removals in the Cape

History tour of the Castle of Good Hope - 23 April 2022

History walking tour of the Waterfront

Holiday Tours with Ditsong Museums

Hollywood on the Veld - Walking Tour 10 April 2021

Homes of Hermann Kallenbach in Johannesburg - 23 January 2021

Homesteads, pots and marriage in south-east southern Africa

Homesteads, pots and marriage in southeast southern Africa - Talk by Gavin Whitelaw

Homo Naledi and the Rising Star Cave - Talk by Dr Marina Elliott

Homo Naledi The Facts - A Presentation by Dr Bernhard Zipfel

Honey I shrunk the tools - On the beginnings of the Later Stone Age in KwaZulu-Natal

Horwoods Farm Monthly Clean Ups 2016

Host your Year End Party below sea-level

Hostels in South Africa - Book Launch

House Tour of Tracey's Folly - 23 November 2019

House Tour of Tracey's Folly - 4 December 2016

How archival research can provide context to vernacular buildings - A talk by Nigel Amschwand

How heritage legislation supports vernacular architecture

How History Enriches Travel Writing - 17 March 2022

How South African Scientists Studied Race - Lecture 27 May 2022

Howard Timmins and his Protégés - Book Launch

I Beg to Differ by Peter Storey - Talk 4 May 2019

Identification of Heritage Buildings - Presentation by Ros Devereux (AMAFA)

Illustrated talk on Pioneer Cape Impressionist Painters

In a Time of Plague - Remembering the Spanish Flu Epidemic in South Africa 1918-19

In depth look at the Keiskamma Tapestry in Parliament - 5 May 2017

In Search of Gam Sean - An Exploration of Chinatown - 18 November 2017

In Tamest Africa - A Heritage Walking Tour through the Company Gardens - 18 September 2022

In the Footsteps of Kallenbach and Gandhi - Walking Tour 26 November 2017

In whose place? Confronting vestiges of the colonial landscape in Africa

Inaugural Orlando High School Lecture - Dr Tshepo Mvulane-Moloi

Info Session - Master of Philosophy in Conservation of the Built Environment - 14 August 2025

Interesting categories of Boers that you seldom hear about - 19 March 2020

International Conference on Small Towns and Rural Villages 23-25 November 2025

Invitation to Battle Enactment: Fort Pato - 13 October 2018

Invitation to share your memories of Observatory Cape Town

Invitation to Visit Ram Pumps and Water Wheel - 26 October 2019

in_Herit Festival 2016 - free entry to all Iziko museums from 19-25 September

Irma Stern Museum – Future Plans - 17 September 2020

Isandlwana Lecture - The Musical - 24-26 January 2020

Isandlwana/Rorkes Drift commemorative tour – 140th anniversary

Iziko Outing - 'Exploring slave space in the city' - 20 April 2017

Jacaranda Walk - Pallinghurst Road Westcliff

Jacaranda Walk - The Valley Road

James Findlay's Five Rare Finds - 16 November 2019

James Hall Museum of Transport celebrates Heritage Day with Vintage Cars and Bikes Show

Jameson Raid Debacle - Virtual Tour 22 August 2020

Jan Christian (Christiaan) Smuts Talk - How should he be represented in our history?

Jan Smuts - 'Unafraid of Greatness' - Talk by Richard Steyn

Jan Smuts - A talk with Dr. David Katz and Peter Dickens - 16 September 2022

Jan Smuts and the definition of manhood - 13 May 2017

Jan Smuts and the Lost African Kingdom of Mapungubwe - 17 October 2024

Jan Smuts, the A-Bomb and South Africa's Nuclear Development - 24 April 2025

Jan Smuts: A Man of Letters - Talk 12 June 2021

Jane Austen's Cape Connection - Lecture by Dr Finuala Dowling

JC Smuts, the lawyer - 19 October 2023

JC Smuts: The Formative Years - Conference 12-14 September 2024

Jeppestown to Maboneng - Johannesburg through the decades

Jeremy Rose Memorial

JHF Big Book Sale 2025

JHF releases 4th Quarter Programme 2017

JHF Tour Programme - April to June 2018

JHF Tour Programme - January to March 2018

JHF tours this Jacaranda season

Jill Weintroub’s biography of adventurer and anthropologist, Dorothea Bleek

Joburg 10K CityRun goes virtual in 2021!

Joburg by Night - Walking Tour - 7 April 2017

Joburg Collectable Book & Antique Map Fair - November 2015

Joburg Collectable Book & Antique Map Faire - 23 February 2018

Joburg Collectable Book Fair - 14 September 2016

Joburg Collectable Book Fair at the Rand Club

Joburg Collectable Book Faire at Freemason's Hall Parktown - 21 July 2018

Joburg History Through the Lens of Brixton Cemetery - 1 February 2020

Joburg History Through the Lens of Brixton Cemetery - 1 February 2020

Joburg Inner City Public Art Walking Tour - 1 July 2017

Joburg Pubs, Bars & Rooftops Tour - 1 April 2017

Joburg tree-walking tour - 9 September 2023

Joburg Zoo turns 114 in March 2018

Joburg's Best Buildings Tour

Joburg's Eastern Suburbs - Now & Then

Joburg's Exceptional Jewish Women - Tour of the Westpark Jewish Cemetery

Joburg's first trees - Tour 10 December 2023

Joburg's Oldest Trees Tour - 18 January 2025

Joburg's remarkable sculptures, friezes and reliefs - 26 January 2019

JoburgPlaces City Centre Tour - 18 August 2018

Jock of the Bushveld Road Tour 13th - 15th February 2016

Jock of the Bushveld route to be explored

Johan Swart talks about Hidden Pretoria - 18 March 2020

Johannesburg - MoTown and Music - 10 October 2020

Johannesburg 130 - Special JHF Tour

Johannesburg 2020 and Ahead - Virtual Book Launch

Johannesburg Art Gallery - 100 year celebration of the Lutyens building

Johannesburg Book Fair at The View - 27 January 2017

Johannesburg City Centre Pub Crawl

Johannesburg Collectable Book Fair - June 2016

Johannesburg Collectable Book Fair - October 2016

Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Challenge 2016

Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Tour Programme - July to September 2017

Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Tours (January to March 2019)

Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Tours - 4th Quarter 2018

Johannesburg Heritage Foundation's Big Book Sale 2022

Johannesburg Heritage Tours - April to June 2016

Johannesburg Heritage Tours - January to March 2016

Johannesburg Heritage Weekend - 24-25 September 2016

Johannesburg Heritage Weekend 2018 is here!

Johannesburg Heritage Weekend 2019

Johannesburg's Blue Plaques - Talk 3 July 2021

Johannesburg's Towers, Turrets, Spires and Steeples - 26 August 2017

John Gribble speaks about the book "We Die Like Brothers: The South African Native Labour Corps and the Sinking of the SS Mendi"

Join Dr Dean Allen on a tour to Matjiesfontein 24-26 January 2022

Join leading historian on Company's Garden walk

Join this book collecting drive to help raise funds for the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation

Join us for a beer to commemorate the Legend, Anders Ohlsson, who started Ohlsson’s Cape Breweries in Newlands 130 years ago!

Join WCI Honorary Research Fellow Steven Sack as the Origin’s centre launches its new virtual reality experience

José Dale Lace - A Woman of No Importance - 28 November 2020

Jozi City Takeover photowalk - 22 March 2020

Jozi Coffee and History Running Tour - 27 November 2021

Jozi Takeover City Walk - 25 November 2018

Jozi Walks is back for 2020

Jozi Walks Weekend - 24-25 June 2017

Jozi's secret streams tour - 8 February 2025

Joziburg Lane Festival 2016

JoziWalks - Noordgesig The many pasts and futures of ‘Bulte’

JoziWalks: La Rochelle with Tsica Heritage Consultants

JoziWalks: Orlando East with the James Mpanza Legacy Foundation

JoziWalks: Sophiatown with Sophiatown The Mix - 24 June 2017

Junior Historian Workshop in Historic Tokai

Kaapsehoop Past & Present - Photographic Excursion 12 February 2022

Kalk Bay Historical Association - Talks Schedule 2025 - 2026

Kalk Bay Historical Association - Talks Schedule for 2017-18

Kalk Bay Historical Association Talks 2024-25

Kalk Bay's Street Names Tell their Stories

Kat River and Cederberg interviews - Illustrated presentation by Susan Blackbeard

Kensington - A Walk Through Living History - February 2016

Kensington Heritage Walks

Kensington Jacaranda Walk - 20 October 2019

Key Discoveries of the Tectonic ZA Wilhelmiens Project - Presentation 29 January 2020

Kimberley 150 Years Old Exhibition

Kirstenbosch - More than a beautiful garden - 26 October 2022

Kitchener, The man not the myth - Three Talks by Dr Anne Samson

Klerksdorp Museum's Annual Mampoer Festival

Kliptown and the Freedom Charter - Virtual Tour (members only)

Kobus van Wyk leads visit to The Old Granary - 26 May 2022

Komatiite: 50th Anniversary Geoheritage Field Trip to Barberton

Kruger Millions and other interesting stories - 29 June 2021

Ladan Road Kalk Bay - A social and architectural history - 28 October 2019

Land for new cemeteries forum

Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa - Book Launch

Landmark Printed Maps of the Cape of Good Hope - Talk by Dr Roger Stewart

Landmarks of Sophiatown - Blue Plaques Tour - 9 & 23 November 2024

Last chance to book for Heritage Symposium

Last chance to see the exhibition 'Between States of Emergency: Photographers in action 1985 to 1990'

Last chance to see ‘Glory Days: Highlights from the History of the State Theatre’

Launch of Andrew Tshabangu: Footprints

Launch of Franco Frescura and Joyce Myeza’s new book, Illustrated Glossary of Southern African Architectural Terms: English-Isizulu.

Launch of Heritage Conservation and Awareness project

Launch of Johannesburg Then and Now - 11 October 2018

Launch of People of the Magaliesberg - 21 April 2026

Launch of the "Dr Dean Allen - Matjiesfontein Experience"

Launch of the 2018 Phansi Museum Calendar

Launch of the MACH Museum - 15 February 2025

Launch of the new book 'Illustrated History of Hartbeespoort Dam' - 7 June 2022

Launch of the online Magaliesberg Heritage Map - 5 August 2023

Launch of the Valerie Chipkin Archives

Le Corbusier Tour France - 23 May - 4 June 2016

Learning Lessons from History - The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic - 27 April 2020

Lecture by Jo Noero - 1 March 2018

Lecture series on Mbuyisa Makhubu - 16 June 2018

Legacy; that of a local historian and further afield - Talk by Trevor Webster

Legends and Graves of the Amathole - 17 May 2022

Lesseyton Methodist Seminary and Mission Station - Tour and information sharing session

Letta Mbulu Honorary Lecture, Fun Walk and Blue Plaque Unveiling

Letters of Stone - The Fate of a Jewish Family in Berlin - Exhibition Opening

LIFE: Past. Present. Future - 27 October 2022

Lifestyles of Victorian Joburg's Rich and Famous

Lifestyles of Victorian Joburg's Rich and Famous - 24 November 2018

Lifestyles of Victorian Joburg's Rich and Famous - 27 May 2016

Lifeways, Excavations at Schöningen and paradigm shifts in human evolution - Talk by Prof. Nicholas Conard

Lightning strikes and other stories: geomorphic processes in the high Drakensberg

Linksfield Ridge through Harvey Nature Reserve - Walking Tour 26 September 2021

Listening to the Rivonia Trial | International Colloquium

Little Foot - Lecture by Prof Ron Clarke - 23 April 2022

Lizelle Kruger’s solo exhibition 'Cape Town Memoirs And Dangerous Liaisons' opens 1 March 2018

Long Street Heritage Walking Tour - 16 October 2022

Looking at the past with new ‘eyes’ - An archival and digital re-examination of rock art copies made by Abbé Breuil on his 1948 and 1950 expeditions to Namibia’s Erongo Mountains

Looking for a conference venue in the city?

Lorentzville Bertrams and New Doornfontein Walk - 17 March 2018

Luthuli Remembered - 24 November 2018

Lutyen's Plan for New Delhi - 8 April 2021

L’Animal voyant (The seeing animal) Renaud Ego

M Phil dissertation presentations regarding Langa Heritage

Maboneng Night Walk - 25 May 2018

Magalies Rocks the Cradle Festival - 25-27 August 2017

Magaliesberg Anglo-Boer war Bus Tour - 5 August 2018

Magaliesberg Battlefields Tour - 8-9 December 2018

Magaliesberg Battlefields Tour - 9-10 March 2019

Magaliesberg Boer-War Heritage Bus tour

Magaliesberg Natural Heritage - Mountains of Wonder

Magebhula Mpanza Big Walk

Magebhula Mpanza Big Walk - Tshwane

Magebhula Mpanza Birthday Breakfast Schools Tour

Magical Modderfontein Bus Tour - 21 October 2017

Magical Msinga: an exhibition of pencil crayon drawings by Jannie van Heerden

Main and Harris Road Area Kalk Bay - A Social and Architectural History

Mainly Malvern with Some Art Deco Gems - Bus Tour 21 April 2018

Making Maps - Affinities of space in Johannesburg and beyond

Mampoer Festival - 29 June 2024

Mampoer Festival at the Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum - 2 July 2022

Mandela as a Lawyer - Public Lecture

Mandela’s Norwood - Walking Tour 22 July 2018

Mapping the original shoreline of Cape Town - VASSA Talk

Mapungubwe the Beginning - Lecture Series 2019

Maritime Archaeology - Cape Peninsula Wrecks and Salvage (Part 1)

Market Theatre Plaque Unveiling - 25 October 2017

Maropeng the Official Visitor Centre to the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site brings you a series of public talks

Maropeng to host “Almost Human” exhibition of Homo naledi fossils

Massive Book Sale in a Heritage House

Massive Bookdealers Sale - 11 to 24 September 2017

Massive sale of over 3000 history books

Master of Philosophy in Conservation of the Built Environment - Applications Open

Master of Philosophy in Conservation of the Built Environment - Info Session 19 September 2024

Matjiesfontein Revisited - The Jewel of the Karoo - Talk 23 August 2020

Mayor Herman Mashaba celebrates Johannesburg’s 130th birthday at Museum Africa, Newtown

Melrose House Antiques Fair 16 December 2015

Melrose House Christmas Antique Market

Melville Koppies Hike - 8 April 2018

Melville Koppies Walks - 29-30 October 2022

Melville Miscellany - Coffee Shops and Koppies - 27 February 2022

Memorial for Pancho d'Alpoim Guedes

Memorial Sunday Remembrance Parade Dundee - 15 November 2020

Memorialising Inequality - An inquiry into proposals to establish a museum for the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies

Memorials beyond apartheid at universities in South Africa

Memory Against Forgetting with Toni Strasburg and Ronnie Kasrils

Men of the Mendi and the SA Native Labour Corp in France in World War I - 23 March 2024

Mendi Day - Wreath Laying at the Johannesburg Cenotaph - 21 February 2017

Middelburg Historical Tour - 22 & 23 June 2023

Mike Walker speaks on the Old Hotels of Cape Town and their Architects 1890 - 1911

Militaria Veteran Fair - 2 November 2019

Militaria Veteran Fair - 21 July 2018

Military Heritage Symposium - Call for Exhibitors

Military History of Robben Island - 31 March 2025

Military History Tour of Durban - 30 July 2022

Millionaire's Mile - The Muizenberg to St James Meander - Talk 5 June 2021

Minister Nathi Mthethwa Launches Heritage Month 2018

Modderfontein Blue Plaque Unveiling and Heritage Walk - 21 May 2022

Modderfontein Heritage On Show - 24 September 2025

Modderfontein Heritage Tour - 29 April 2017

Modderfontein’s Explosive History: A Tale of Dynamite, Gold and War - 29 October 2022

Money, Banks & Vaults Walking Tour Launched

Montagu: Days gone by - An exhibition of historical photographs

Monuments & Memories - Art & Race - USA and South Africa - 6 August 2020

Moses Tladi (1903-1959) - Wits Art Museum Exhibition

Mosque Architecture in Johannesburg - 11 September 2021

Mosques and Minarets - Bus Tour - 16 July 2016

Mountain Views - Walking tour of Ridge Road and Young Avenue - 15 February 2020

Movie screening - An Act of Defiance: The Story of Bram Fischer

Moving with the Mosaic Master - A Bus Tour of Drew Lindsay's Public Art

Mpati Mountain Race 2019

Mpumalanga Heritage AGM - 12 November 2016

Mpumalanga Heritage follows Pettigrew's Wagon Route

Mpumalanga Oral History Conference - Call for Papers

Mrs Clarke of Pondoland - the photographer - 21 September 2024

Muizenberg - The story of Shtetl by the sea

Muizenberg Literary Heritage Festival - 21 September 2024

Muizenberg Literary Heritage Festival 2025

Munstead Wood - Miss Jekyll's Surrey House 90 Years On - 22 September 2022

Muratie’s heritage, wine and lunch with owner Dr Rijk Melck

Museum and heritage on show in Modderfontein - 25 September 2023

Museum Management and Curatorship Workshop - 7–9 June 2023

Museum Night Cape Town - 20 April 2017

Museum Night Johannesburg - 19 September 2019

Museum Rock Art Outing - 24 February 2019

Museums in a Post-Covid World - 18 May 2021

Music archaeology in southern Africa: latecomer on the agenda? Talk by Josh Kumbani

Music at Bradshaw's Mill Bathurst - 22 September 2024

Music at Bradshaw's Mill with Historic Bathurst - 26 September 2021

Music Festival celebrates Wakkerstroom's 160th birthday

Musicking and Human Development - 6 June 2024

Must See Art Exhibition... It is a Fine Line - The Old Fort Constitution Hill

Must see exhibition - Footprints Commissioner

My Father Died for This - Book Launch at the Cradock Four Garden of Remembrance

Mysteries at the East London Museum 2023

Myths in Early Cape History

Myths of the Anglo-Boer War hard to bust even today

Naming Jozi Walking Tour - 24 August 2018

National & World Heritage Sites in South Africa - 22 October 2022

National Gold Panning Championships 2016

National Heritage Council to commemorate Charlotte Maxeke through an intergenerational dialogue

Navigating the National Heritage Resources Act - 29 September 2022

Ndlambe Heritage Challenge this Easter

Neil Aggett Inquest - Forensic architecture support evidence - Presentation by Heather Dodd

Nelson Mandela Centenary Lecture - 18 May 2018

Nelson Mandela's Footprints through the Northern Cape - 18 July 2018

Never Modern - High-rise Housing and Race in 1950s Johannesburg

New Book Celebrating Wits University

New Castle of Good Hope History Tour

New Developments in Rock Art Dating - Talk by Prof David Pearce

New Exhibition "The New Kids on the Block" at the Phansi Museum Glenwood

New Exhibition at the Voortrekker Monument

New exhibitions at the Kowie Museum

New Florida Road Walking Tour - 23 September 2025

New Hominin Fossil Discovery from Milner Hall Sterkfontein

New museum theatre production staged inside the Women’s Gaol

New Museums, New Horizons? Panel discussion and public conversation

New Narratives and Poisoned Pasts - Public Lecture 30 November 2018

New online series on the future of archaeology in Africa

New Preparatory School for ST John's College 02 April 2022

New production delves into the history of the famous mansion Windybrow

New South African War Mural for Rustenburg

New SS Mendi Photo Display at SA Naval Museum

New Tour - Exploring the Warwick & Indian Markets

New Tour of the Shark Tank - 30 November 2022

New tours, events and activations at iconic 44 Main Street

New York on the Veld - Art Deco Joburg - Bus Tour 14 March 2020

New York on the Veld - Art Deco Joburg by bus - 1 December 2019

New York on the Veld - Art Deco Johannesburg - Tour 11 March 2017

Newclare Cemetery Tour - 29 June 2019

Newlands History, Architecture & Design Tour - 24 November 2018

Newly discovered South African architectural heritage with a Dutch legacy (1902–1961)

Newtown Now Festival and the launch of the Newtown Heads refurbishment project

Newtown's iconic public artworks get a new lease on life

NHC to pay tribute to the life and times of JB Marks through the commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Mine Workers' Strike

NHC Workshop - Guidance on the NHC Funding Call - 18 July 2025

Night at the Barberton Museum 2017

Night at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum

Night at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum - Halloween Edition 2019

Night at the Museum - 7 July 2017

Night at the Museum - Halloween Edition

Noordgesig - An Insider’s Perspective - 24 September 2022

Noordgesig Historical Arts Alive

Norscot Manor Open Day

Northwards - The Phenomenon of Place - Talk 30 July 2016

Notice of intention to demolish structures at 50 Fifth Street, Houghton Estate

Number Four and the Prisoners of the Soweto Uprising - 17 June 2017

Object 10 Fossil Plants - 26 November 2022

Ochre, Archaeology and Contemporary Art: From Deep Time to Now

Ode to Oak - GIfA Building Tour - 12 February 2022

Off the Wall - An 80th Birthday Celebration with Linda Givon

Official Opening of The Block House Museum - 7 June 2025

Official opening of the refurbished exhibition at the Cape Town Holocaust Centre

Old Granary & Baroque Archi Tour - 13 October 2018

Oldest School in Soweto celebrates 80 years in 2019

Oliver Tambo and S.S Mendi Centenary Commemoration

Om die Dam Heritage Bus Tour - 17 March 2019

Om die dam Heritage Bus Tour with Rob Milne - 23 June 2019

On the Rocks - A social and architectural history of the area below Main Road from Kalk Bay to Woolleys Pool - Part 2: Resthaven to Walsoken

On the trail of Emily Hobhouse in the Anglo-Boer War - Talk by Elsabe Brits 4 August 2018

On the trail of Stellenbosch and the Western Cape's early history

Once in a life time trip with two heritage steam locomotives

One-man play by Peter Terry about Delville Wood - 18 June 2022

Online Book Auction & Joburg Collectable Book Fair - August 2016

Online book launch: Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa

Open Days at Sandstone Heritage this November

Open House in Mountain View - 25 September 2021

Opening of 'Unfinished City'

Opening of an exhibition of paintings, drawings and graphics by Nita Spilhaus

Opening of Robert Sobukwe Exhibition - 10 May 2018

Opening of the Ahmed Kathrada Site of Remembrance

Opening of The Cosmopolitan 2 July 2016

Opening of the exhibition Postmodern NDEBELE

Opening of The Station Regional Market at Old Park Station

Orange Grove uncovered - 28 September 2024

Orders, Decorations and Medals - A South African Perspective - 28 April 2022

Origins Centre Opening after a year - 9 April 2021

Origins of Early Sapiens Behaviour - New Exhibition

Orlando East - Where Firsts Abound - 25 November 2018

Orlando Heritage Media Briefing - 30 August 2019

Orlando High School 80th Anniversary Celebration

Our Intrepid Cape Motoring Pioneers

Our Museums, Our Heritage: What's the Future

Outing to Coromandel Estate, Lydenburg - 13 February 2021

Outing to Fort Merensky and Botshabelo - 13 July 2019

Outing to Malgas and Port Beaufort

Outing to Matjiesfontein and Laingsburg with the Swellendam Heritage Association

Outing to Mostert's Mill Cape Town

Outing to Keiskammahoek - 17 August 2019

Overnight trip to Robben Island - 28-29 July 2017

Oxen and Wagons In the South African War - Talk by Prof. Erik Holm

Palaces of Stone Book Launch - 23 September 2021

Pallinghurst Road in Jacaranda Time - 15 October 2016

Pancho in Pietermaritzburg - 23 March 2024

Panel Discussion on Delville Wood

Paper Conservation Workshop Cape Town

Parish Life in Sophiatown - 13 August 2022

Parktown Ridge Heritage Area - The Baker Trail

Parliament’s Art & Heritage - 14 November 2018

Pastel Passages through Parkview and Westcliff - 12 February 2022

People of the Bridge - Book Launch

Personal Library sale of the late Frikkie Botha: Fiction, non-fiction, Africana, catalogues, art books and more!

Petitioning Power: Female Royalty (Amakhosikazi) and their Written Grievances to the Colonial Authorities (1839-1899) in South Africa’s Eastern Cape - 15 November 2022

Phansi goes Phezula - Art-Craft-Tradition

Phansi Museum Exhibition opening Earth-Water-Fire: a festival of clay

Phansi Museum launches the 22nd Art Craft Tradition Calendar

Phansi Museum Webinar Lectures with Paul Mikula!

Photo and video exhibition at The Doll House

Photo exhibition and book launch of Hidden Pretoria

Photographic Exhibition - The Story of Joburg Trams

Photographic Exhibition Launch - 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycotts

Photographic Exhibition: In memory of the Fietas Removals: 40 years of destruction – the forgotten land grab

Photographs beyond ruins: The Usakos old location albums 1920s-1960s

PHRAG - Heritage Bodies Workshop 2016

Pierneef painting of Gordon Leith on auction

Pilgrim's Rest Heritage Weekend - 21-23 October 2022

Pilgrim’s Rest Heritage Weekend - 20-22 July 2018

Pilgrim’s Rest Who’s Who 1873 to 1881 - Book Launch

Plaas Fees at the Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum - 30 October 2021

Plaque to commemorate forgotten Rand pioneer - 5 May 2018

Plaque to honour Mrs Ball of chutney fame

Plett's First History Festival - 13-15 February 2020

Plots and Plans at Rand Club - 12 March 2022

Point Precinct Walk - 19 June 2022

Polish Refugee Children of Oudtshoorn (1943-1947) - 29 May 2025

POPIA - Implications for genealogy - 14 August 2021

Poppy Tour in Braamfontein Cemetery - 9 November 2018

Pre-feasibility Study for the Sibudu Cave Experience

Prepare the water and add the fat - A talk by Melissa Barker on Ancient Ceramics

Presbyterians in Xhosaland - From Lovedale to Tutura - 27 August 2022

Presbyterians in Xhosaland: from Lovedale to Tutura

Presentation of new interactive map of heritage sites in and around the Magaliesberg Biosphere - 13 September 2022

Presentation on the construction of the Gariep Dam - 17 November 2018

Presenting, Managing and (Mis)Managing the use of Rock Art Heritage

Preservation Conservation of South Africa's Documentary / Heritage Collections

Preserving the Past, Designing the Future: The Old Rectory’s Elegant Evolution - 16 May 2025

Pretoria Places of Worship Walking Tour

Pride of Place - South Africa's World Heritage Sites

Princess Elizabeth Graving Dock 1947 - Virtual Talk 24 April 2021

Print launch of a series of new architectural aquatint etchings by Lorenzo Nassimbeni

Prison in Paradise: Jewish Detainees in Mauritius, 1940-45

Private Tour of the Walter Battiss Exhibition - 9 October 2016

Programme for 9th Annual Boer and Brit Day released

Programme for the Anglo Boer Weekend in Matjiesfontein

Pub Crawl through Historical Barberton - 12 November 2016

Public History and Archiving Struggle from Below

Public History in times of decolonisation - Reflections of the past and present - Inaugural Lecture of Noor Nieftagodien

Public Lecture by Prof Karim Sadr 'Before Johannesburg: a newly discovered Tswana city from around AD 1800'

Public Lecture on Death and Adventure in Africa: Tales of a Forensic Pathologist - 17 October 2019

Public Lecture on the 140th Commemoration of the Battle of Isandlwana

Pushing the Boundaries - Issues in Southern African Archaeology - South African Archaeological Society Northern Branch - 2016 Symposium

Putting the Great War Poets into Context - 11 November 2020

Rabble to Randlords - Walking Tour - 20 August 2016

Race a Steam Train this October!

Radio communication and Radio communication and the origins of the NSRI - Talk by Paul Johnson

Railways in South Africa - 27 May 2021

Raising the Bar: The Making of a Judge - 18 April 2026

Rampant Rebellion of 1914 in the OFS and Transvaal - 28 May 2022

Rand Club Antiques, Book Faire & Artisanal Market

Rand Club Art Tour with James Findlay

Rand Club Summer Book Faire - 27 November 2021

Rand Club to host its first Book Faire on 2 November 2019

Rand Club Tour – “Behind the Scenes’’ with ex General Manager, Charles Drewe

Rand Revolt Centenary - Memorial Unveiling and Braamfontein Cemetery Tour

Randlords & their mansions - 13 August 2022

Randlords & their mansions - 17 June 2022

Randlords Heritage Walk Kensington - September 2018

Rare opportunity to see inside Freemason's Hall, Parktown

Rare rock art depiction of a bushbuck in the southeastern mountains, South Africa - Talk by Professor David Pearce

Rare tour inside grand Parktown mansion - 18 August 2018

Rayno Sciocatti speaks about The Italian silk industry and chapel in Gouna

Re-enactment of the Battle of Isandlwana

Reappraising Jan Smuts 80 years later for his role in World War II

Recent Archaeological Research in the Doring River Catchment - 8 February 2022

Recognising and celebrating the cultural wealth of our nation - 29 September 2022

Records and Information Management Seminar - 7 March 2016

Red Devil Day Trip in Robertson

Red Devil Run - Heritage railway trip from Cape Town to Robertson

Rededication of the Cambridge War Memorial - 17 July 2022

Redesigning Popular Histories through Exhibits

Rediscovering the Orange Grove Waterfall - 12 August 2018

Rediscovering the Orange Grove Waterfall - 17 November 2019

Reefsteamers Open Day 2017

Reflections on Rivonia: building the Liliesleaf Museum

Reflections on Women in the liberation struggle - 28 August 2024

Registration for the upcoming ASAPA Conference 2017 is now open!

Reinet House at Night - 20 March 2024

Relevance of Paul Kruger and Kruger Museum: Then and Now

Relief of Ladysmith - Special Anniversary Tour 25-27 February 2022

Remembering Clive Chipkin, Architect and Historian

Remembering Madiba 5 years later: Reconciliation Peace Walk

Remembering Malmesbury - 12 November 2019

Remembering our Heroes on Freedom Day

Remembering Queer District Six - 22 September 2018

Remembering the Alabama Cinema - Cape Town

Remembering the SS Mendi - 17 February 2024

Remembrance Sunday acknowledges the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II in Poland

Remembrance Sunday in Johannesburg 2016

Remembrance Sunday Johannesburg 2017

Renaming of Central Block Wits to Robert Sobukwe Block

Reopening of Bloemfontein City Hall - 21 October 2021

Reopening of Church Square - 11 October 2018

Repairs of Railway Destruction during the Anglo-Boer War - Talk by Dennis Walters

Resilient Heritage: Safeguarding South Africa’s Legacy in a Changing Climate

Resistance and Liberation Heritage National Summit

Resistance in Their Blood Exhibition Launch

Restoring Fleurbaix - A Talk by Ivan Flint

Restoring the Madelain Hotel - Talk by Helene Potgieter

Resurrecting the White River Museum

Retrospective exhibition of the work of Gawie Fagan

Retrospective exhibition on the work and life of the late Gawie Fagan

Returning home in the former Boer Republics after the Anglo-Boer War - 25 March 2025

Revolution on the Rand - The Tumultuous Events of 1922 - Bus Tour 31 August 2019

Rhodes and his Banker - Meet the Author - 28 November 2024

Rhodes, Randlords and Royalty - Tour and Tea

Richard Steyn's new book 'Rhodes and his Banker' - Talk 12 October 2024

Rising Star Cave and the discovery of Homo naledi - Lecture by Steven Tucker

Rivonia Trial Heritage is 60 Years Old

Robert F. Kennedy's Historic 1966 visit to South Africa - Its significance then and now

Rock Art in the Rocky Drift Area - 10 February 2024

Rock Art of the Waterberg - 11 April 2024

Rock Art Talk by Dr Janette Deacon - 6 November 2018

Rock Music - Rock gongs in the precolonial past and present in the Northern Cape

Rocking the British Army: Triumph of the Zulu Impi at the Battle of Isandlwana - Ditsong Lecture

Rockridge Road: Baker's Parktown - 24 September 2022

Rodney Harber, A Life in Architecture

Roger Fisher presents at the GIFA Heritage online lecture series

Ronnie Kasrils Book Launch - 7 December 2019

Roodepoort Museum Showcases Remarkable Collection

Rosebank Library Book Sale - 27 October 2016

Royal Natal Yacht Club Heritage Regatta

Royal Wedding Tea at Emoyeni

RSA 365 Book Launch - 10 September

SAHRA Heritage Week Webinar Series 2021

SAHRA Round Table Discussion - Preserving Railway Heritage

SAHRIS Training in Gauteng - 30 June 2016

SAHRIS Training Workshop

Sailor Malan Memorial Lecture - Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis - 14 September 2024

Sailor Malan, the Pilot - 13 September 2025

Salt River Heritage Day 2018

Salt River History walking tour - January 2021

SAMA Excursions to the Cape Town City Centre, Helderberg Basin and Simon's Town

SAMA National Conference 2017 - National Museum and Contested Histories

SAMA Western Cape Regional Conference - Call for papers

Sandstone Restoration from Images

Sandton Bonanza Book Sale - 25-26 November 2016

Sandton Book Sale - 27-28 January 2017

Sandton Grand Book Sale - June 2017

Sandton Library Book Sale - 31 May - 1 June 2024

Sandton Library Book Sale - August 2017

Sandton Library Grand Christmas Book Sale 2017

SAPI Western Cape - Heritage Seminar - 14 August 2024

Saul Msane Legacy Recognition Campaign

Saul Msane Legacy Symposium 2020

Saul Msane Public Lecture and Heritage Commemoration - 15 September 2017

Savage and Dodd 25 Years Motif - Exhibition Opening 19 February 2019

Save the Date - Anglo Boer Weekend at the Lord Milner Matjiesfontein - 7-9 April 2017

Save the Date - Geoheritage Conference 2022

Save the Date and Call for Abstracts - 2018 Conference of the South African Society for Cultural History

Save the Date for Heritage Weekend 2022 - 24-25 September

Save the Date for the 2022 HASA Symposium

Save the Date for these 2020 talks hosted by the Border Historical Society

Save the Oak Lane - Art Exhibition

Schoemanskloof Narrow Gauge Railway Line and Helvetia Battlefield - 14 October 2017

Screening of interview with Salt River's oldest resident - 24 September 2019

Screening of The State against Mandela and the Others - 23 July 2018

Secret Johannesburg - Book Launch 3 September 2018

Secret Underground Dinner in the basement of landmark heritage building!

Secrets of Dundee with Pam McFadden

See Cape Town differently - walking history tour

Selected letters by President M T Steyn 1904-1910

Self-Drive Historic Gardens Trail

September Heritage weekend in Dundee

Ship Society Evening 26 October 2023 - The SS Waratah

Shipwreck Saturday - 17 August 2024

Shipwreck Saturday - 5 August 2023

Shipwrecks in False Bay and South Peninsula Coast: Commercial Ships - 26 October 2026

Short successes and the future vision of the City of Tshwane

Sibudu being recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site - Talk

Siege of Mafeking - A British success or Boer failure?

Sign up for new tour saluting Durban’s military history

Signalers' Annual Reunion and Remembrance Day - 28 July 2018

Significance of the Earliest Farmhouses in the Tygerberg - 26 March 2025

Simon's Town Commemoration - 24 September 2022

Simon's Town Ghost Walks - 28-30 September 2018

Simon's Town Heritage Walks

Simon's Town Walking History Tour - 11 February 2019

Simon's Town Walking History Tour - 12 February 2017

Simon's Town Walking History Tour - 14 May 2017

Simon's Town Walking History Tour - 20 May 2025

Simon's Town Walking History Tour - 30 March 2019

Simon's Town Walking History Tour - 5 March 2016

Simon's Town Walking History Tour - 8 September 2017

Simon's Town Walking History Tour - Saturday 26 March 2022

Simon's Town Walking History Tour - 10 September 2016

Simon's Town Walking Tour - 5 March 2022

Simon’s Town Walking Tour with Joline Young

Sir Peter Paul Rubens - Portrait of a Gentleman

Sites to see during the 3rd Watercourse History Festival in Plettenberg Bay

Six distinct Joburg gardens open to the public - 17-18 September 2017

Social History Tour of The Castle of Good Hope

Some of the earliest known engravings in the world on display - 24 September 2022

Sophia Gray Memorial Lecture - 30 August 2018

Sophiatown Freedom Tour - 27 April 2018

Sophiatown Tour - 16 April 2025

Sopris Rock Art in the American South West - Talk by Prof Tom Huffman

South Africa in Angola 1975-6 - Talk at the View

South Africa to come alive with the sights and sounds of 1930s Grand Prix Cars

South African (Anglo-Boer) War Weekend 14-16 Oct 2016

South African (Anglo-Boer) War Weekend July 2017

South African Gold Panning Championships 2017

South African Heritage and Tourism Festival 2018

South African History Retold - Book Launch

South African History With Numbers, An Overview of the South African Economy in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries

South African War Weekend - 6-8 April 2018

South African War Weekend 20-21 July 2018

South African War Weekend at Kedar Heritage Lodge - 19-21 July 2019

South Africans versus Rommel - Book Launch

South Africa’s Greatest Escape Happened in the Magaliesberg - Talk by Prof. Fransjohan Pretorius

Soweto Heritage Festival 2017

Soweto Heritage Ride 2018

Speakers announced for 2022 HASA Symposium

Special anniversary tour to battlefields of Isandlwana, Rorkes Drift and Spioenkop - 22-24 January 2020

Springs Art Deco - New Exhibition

St James to Simon's Town - Then and Now

St John's Church Boksburg Centenary Concert

Stained Glass - An ancient art in modern form (Bus Tour 17 March 2018)

Stained Glass - An Ancient Art in Modern Form - Bus Tour 22 June 2019

Stars of Sandstone 2019 - Travel and stay in style on South Africa’s legendary Blue Train

Starstruck in Urania Village - A tour of Johannesburg's Historic Observatory

Stellenbosch Museum Cultural Tour - 17 September 2022

Sterkfontein's 80th Birthday celebration at Origins Centre

Stofbergsfontein and Churchhaven on the Langebaan Lagoon - VASSA Talk November 2017

Stories from Matjiesfontein - 26 August 2017

Story of the fishing industry in Plettenberg Bay

Sublime structures that take their inspiration from the Circle - Talk 12 May 2018

Sugihara, Zwartendik and the Jewish refugees in Japan - The Story of Dora Grynberg

Suikerbosrand: A Pre-colonial Tswana City between Johannesburg and the river Vaal

Summer and Easter Steam Festivals 2021

Summer City Walk Pretoria - 2 December 2017

Sunrise in Sandton - 19 August 2017

Support the Joburg Inner City - Free tours 21 September 2019

Tackling the preservation of unframed works on paper - 17 November 2017

Take a walk with Nelson Mandela in Alexandra Township

Taking stock, the art of looking - Talk by Heritage Consultant Lindsay Napier

Talana Live - 18-20 October 2019

Talana Live 2018

Talana Weekend - 19-20 October 2024

Talk - John Parker, architect and mayor: Remaking Cape Town at the turn of the twentieth century

Talk - Natal Government Railways (NGR) and their production of 'the Zulus' from 1860.

Talk by Dr Dean Allen at the SA Museum Cape Town - 27 March 2019

Talk by Hermann Giliomee - The Rebellions of Graaff-Reinet and Swellendam of 1795 and a brief comparison with the transition in South Africa in the early 1990s

Talk by Marcus Neustetter at the Mueum of African Design - 31 March 2017

Talk by Professor Mike De Jongh on the Hessequa Khoikhoi of the region around Swellendam

Talk by Steve Herbert on the Delbridge Brothers

Talk on Art Deco Ships - 29 May 2022

Talk on Cape Town's Vanished Schools - August 2016

Talk on Cape Town's Water History - 8 February 2018

Talk on Coenraad de Buys - 23 November 2017

Talk on De la Rey - The Lion of the Western Transvaal

Talk on Dr Gustav Preller - 15 April 2023

Talk on Emily Hobhouse - Swellendam

Talk on excavation at Sibudu by Prof. Nicholas Conard

Talk on Family history research and documentation

Talk on Heraldry in South Africa - 29 April 2026

Talk on Mzilikazi - 16 November 2023

Talk on Nathaniel Cyril Kondile Umhalla - 20 September 2022

Talk on new book - Troubling Images: Visual Culture and the Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism

Talk on Personalities in Anglo-Boer War Battles in the Magaliesberg

Talk on SA Grand Prix History - 19 November 2019 (BHS members)

Talk on Sir Herbert Baker and his home in Owletts in Kent - 10 April 2022

Talk on South Africa's First Grand Prix - 20 September 2025

Talk on the 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion - 8 October 2022

Talk on the Dutch ship Isselsteijn and the SA Navy Reserve Unit SAS Isselsteijn

Talk on the Dutch Ship Isselsteijn and the SA Navy Reserve Unit SAS Isselsteijn - 12 July 2018

Talk on the East Africa campaign during World War I

Talk on the East London Floods of 1970

Talk on the Greater Magaliesburg Battlefields by Rob Milne - 13 February 2020

Talk on the History of Fish Hoek Library

Talk on the History of Southernwood Quarry - 16 July 2019

Talk on the Kruger Cave - 27 May 2021

Talk on the layout of the former farm that gave way to new shopping malls in Sun Valley

Talk on the Men of the Mendi - 21 February 2025

Talk on the spectacular finds from Border Cave - 16 January 2020

Talking Heads and Heritage - In conversation with the Lydenburg Heads

Talks and Outings hosted by the Knysna Historical Society - May / June 2018

Talks by Dean Allen of 'Empire, War and Cricket' fame (Kimberley and Irene - April 2018)

Talks on the History of St John, Lions and Rotary

Talks take off to celebrate life and legacy of Oliver Tambo

Taung Child On Display - One Day Only - 26 March 2022

Tea and Cake at Lindfield House - 6 August 2022

Tea at Lindfield House and Champagne at Kingsway Mansions - 25 March 2017

Tea at Troyeville House launches Heritage Month - 3 September 2022

Tea in Troyeville - 13 June 2021

Tea in Troyeville - 24 September 2021

Telling stories about a world from 250 million years ago - 12 July 2022

Telling stories through food - 4 October 2022

Telling the Johannesburg Story through Maps - 3 October 2020

Ten Years On: Was it Worth It? The Legacy of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa - A New Talk by Dean Allen

The 1914 Rebellion - 19 June 2025

The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic - Charity Talk 12 May 2020

The 200th Anniversary of the 1820 Settlers arrival in South Africa - Talk by Prof John Lambert

The Aerial Ropeway Simons Town Revisited by David Erickson

The Anglo-Boer War Weekend at the Lord Milner Hotel

The Archaeological Record of Fossil Hunting - 8 September 2022

The Archaeology of sex work in Colonial South Africa - 3 November 2022

The Architectural Heritage of Joburg's Synagogues - 30 May 2021

The Architecture and Legacy of Sir Herbert Baker: A Presentation by Professor Kathy Munro

The Architecture of Peter Rich - Conversations with Africa

The Architecture, Life and Legacy of Sir Herbert Baker - 24 September 2025

The Art Deco Buildings of Nairobi - 12 September 2025

The Art of Satire - 25 May 2019

The Atlantic Society House - A Heritage Walking Tour through Sea Point - 12 June 2022

The Battles at Silkaatsnek - Talk & Blue Plaque Unveiling - 20 November 2021

The Boer Generals in the South African War - “The Good, The Bad and The Wobbly”

The Bridges and Bridgeheads in Centurion that played a role during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899- 1902 - Bus Tour 5 May 2017

The Bridges over the River Kei - Talk by William Martinson

The Bridges over the River Kei - Virtual Talk 5 September 2020

The British Generals in the South African War

The buildings of the ‘Durban system’ - Book Launch

The Cape Malays - South Africa's Forgotten People

The Cape Qualified Franchise and Land Rights in the Eastern Cape, 1872-1910 - 6 April 2024

The Cape Town Book Sale 2017

The Career and Archive of Clive Chipkin

The Carnival Court - A Long Street Heritage Walking Tour - 22 May 2022

The Coffee Shop Shuffle Fish Hoek

The Complete Worker - Everyday lives and struggles of black workers 1983 - 2018

The concentration camps of the South African War - Talk by Dr Elizabeth van Heyningen

The Delville Wood Centenary - Architecture and Commemoration, Politics and Personalities

The Development of East London - 1 June 2024

The Development of Resorts along the Peninsula's Atlantic Coast 1890 – 1939 - Talk 23 November 2023

The Development of Zandvlei as a recreational amenity 1880s-1970s (With a focus on the Marina Da Gama Scheme)

The Dissemination of Early Cape History - 21 August 2025

The Dramatic Struggle Heritage of Dube, Soweto - 20 March 2021

The early estates and homesteads of District Six

The early foresters of Knysna - Talk by Philip Caveney

The Earthy Paradise - A Heritage Walking Tour through the Company's Gardens

The Eastern Question (19th-21st centuries): Foreign powers and local actors - Talk 5 March 2020

The Empire Exhibition - The Golden City comes of age - Talk 23 February 2020

The enemy within: German internees in South Africa in World War I - 30 May 2024

The Everyday and Public History - Scholarships Available

The fascinating saga and enigma of Coenraad de Buys (1761-1821) - Talk by Professor Michael de Jongh

The Fugitive's Drift Walk - 3-5 September 2021

The future of access to private archives? Public-private partnership in South African archives’ by Dr Sidney Netshakhuma - 18 April 2024

The future of Johannesburg's museums: Recover and Reimagine

The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine - SAMA National Conference 2021

The Giant Tuna Of False Bay and The Men Who Fought Them From The Boats

The Gold Pioneers - An illustrated talk on the intrepid and legendary prospectors who discovered gold in Mpumalanga

The Grave story of Rietfontein (Sizwe) Hospital - 17 April 2021

The Great Escape of the Boer Pimpernel over the Magaliesberg - 3 August 2024

The Great Ladies of Northwards Tour - 9 August 2022

The Great War: Loss & Remembrance - Talk by Peter Terry

The grieving for a lost generation of men and the curious case of the Cenotaph - Talk by Prof Kathy Munro

The Hare families and their contribution to Cape Town and Kalk Bay

The Heritage Forum with Robert Brusse

The Heritage Sites at Toppieshoek Blue Plaque Unveiling Event - 9 March 2024

The historic oak avenue of Potchefstroom may have a future

The History of Money in South Africa - 30 April 2025

The History of Poespaskraal Farm Fish Hoek 1743 - present

The History of the Pier in Cape Town

The History of the Swazi - Talk by Julius Matsebula

The Holocaust: Meeting People Who Were There - Talk by Laurence Rees

The Illustrated History of Hartbeespoort Dam - Book Launch 3 September 2022

The Implications of the Battle of Salt River in 1510 on the legacy and heritage of the area - Talk 24 September 2019

The Jameson Raid - 1895 The start of the South African War?

The Jameson Raid: uncovering a buried secret - Talk by Rob Milne

The Johannesburg Gas Works - 12 June 2021

The Kruger Millions - Myth or fact?

The Last Glacial Maximum, Strathalan Cave and human networks in the broader Drakensberg - 7 November 2024

The Launch of the PGS Heritage Educational Trust

The Legislative Environment in which we Practice Architecture

The Leonardo Reaching for the Stars - 24 September 2022

The Life and Times of David Pratt - 11 April 2019

The Life and Work of Marjorie Courtenay Latimer - Talk by Mike Bruton

The Magaliesberg Biosphere - Its history and acceptance as a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO

The Magic of Light: Stained Glass - 17 October 2020

The Making of Fourthwall's Books

The Making of Mountainview - 19 May 2024

The Many Faiths of Yeoville Tour - 22 January 2017

The Many Faiths of Yeoville Tour - 27 November 2016

The Marginal City - A Heritage Walking Tour through Cape Town's East City - 15 May 2022

The meaning of Nelson Mandela’s legacy on his second commemoration

The Mendi: Rediscovering a Forgotten Shipwreck - Talk by John Gribble

The Mind in the Cave - The book behind explaining Lascaux

The mission stations of Tulbagh and surrounds - 17 March 2020

The most callous mass migration of people in the history of the British Empire? You decide - 7 July 2022

The museums of Tshwane have collaborated to celebrate International Museum Day

The Mystery and Delight of Johannesburg's Arcades - 9 December 2017

The Mystery and Delight of Johannesburg’s Arcades - 2 April 2022

The Nando’s Story – A Conversation with Robert Brozin, Co-Founder of Nando’s

The Natal Bank Building and Historic Banking District - 20 October 2018

The Natal Road through Glenthorpe including the notorious chute and slide - 11 May 2024

The National Mall - A Heritage Walking Tour through Adderley Street and the Cape Town CBD - 8 May 2022

The New Vintage - An Obs Heritage Walking Tour - 13 November 2022

The Night of the Generals - Talk by Roger Webster

The old hotels of Cape Town 1890–1911 presented by Michael Walker - 28 February 2017

The Origin of the Okavango Delta - Talk by Mike Bruton

The Origins of Beads - An Illustrated Talk

The Origins of Livestock Herding in South Africa

The Ox Wagon - Unique icon of South Africa - 3 May 2022

The Parbuckling project – the inside story of the challenges of the Costa Concordia - 30 August 2017

The Peace Treaty of Vereeniging - Talk by Fransjohan Pretorius

The people and houses of old Kalk Bay - 26 February 2024

The Pines and Villa Arcadia Tour - 31 July 2022

The Price of Gold - Photographic Exhibition

The Rand Club and Historic Financial District - 20 July 2019

The Rand Club and its Old But Interesting Neighbours - 14 May 2022

The Real Arabian Nights – Ghost Towns and Castles in Oman - A talk by Andrew Hall

The Remarkable Story of Hospital Hill - 26 June 2021

The Restoration of Groot Constantia 1926-27 - 10 July 2021

The Rhenosterveld past, present and future - 16 August 2018

The rhinoceros in African culture: the evidence from archaeology, history and ethnography - 13 May 2017

The Road to Prosperity – How Pioneer Engineers built the Colonial Highway to the Eastern Province

The Rock Art of Zimbabwe - A talk by Jeremy Hollmann

The role of Holocaust Memory in Ahmed Kathrada's Struggle against Apartheid

The role of Jan Christian Smuts during the occupation of Pretoria - June 1900

The role of joint stock companies during the phylloxera and rinderpest epidemics in the Cape Colony, 1892-1902

The role that history and heritage can play in bridging socio-historical divisions

The Secret Johannesburg Walking Tour - 26 January 2019

The Secrets of the Saartjies Nek Cross

The significance of Charles Darwin’s visit to the Cape of Good Hope in June 1836 - 22 October 2025

The significance of the Shadow Boxing Sculpture - 23 March 2022

The Skull that Launched a Thousand Discoveries - 7 August 2025

The Skull that Launched a Thousand Discoveries: The History of the Taung Child Its Impact on the Last 100 Years of South African Palaeoanthropology

The South African War in the Magaliesberg - Talk by Rob Milne

The Soweto Story Tour - 18 March 2017

The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss and the Spaces Between

The Standard Bank Hanging Building - GIfA Heritage Series

The Stars of Sandstone - The Sandstone Heritage Collection

The Stewart Memorial on Sandili's Kop - 2 October 2021

The Story of a Great Friendship - Gandhi and Kallenbach in Jhb

The story of Silvermine Valley and its farms by Derek Stuart-Findlay

The Story of the Discovery of Gold on the Witwatersrand - 24 October 2020

The Story of the Peninsula Beach Bathing Boxes

The story of the richest tribe in Africa - 16 September 2020

The Story of the Victoria Cross and Major Robert Cain

The Table Mountain blockhouses - VASSA Talk 19 June 2018

The Temple Facade of Wits University's Central Block - 6 March 2021

The Third Watercourse History Festival in Plettenberg Bay - 23-26 February 2021

The tragic death in childbirth of Princess Charlotte in 1817

The tragic life and times of John Bailie 1820 Settler - Talk 18 February 2020

The Trek Rolls On - Talk by Robin Binckes - author of The Great Trek Uncut

The Trouble with Dating - Establishing a Chronology of Southern African Rock Art

The understanding of South African rock art

The Unveiling of the Broster Beadwork Collection

The use of Heidelberg's heritage to benefit tourism and business

The Valley Road in Spring - Walking Tour 2 September 2017

The Victoria Cross - Talk by Prof John Lambert

The View Reopens with a talk on Bailey's Sharpshooters - 5 March 2021

The void, dust, gold and powering the Rainbow Nation

The Vow Conference - 14 September 2018

The Wannsee Conference in historical context and its relevance for today

The War Memorials of the Transkei and the Ciskei - Tuesday 16 February 2021

The Wilds Walking Tour and Picnic

The Witwatersrand Goldfield - History, Geology, Gold & Minerals - 10 August 2022

The women of the Mazeppa - 14 September 2023

The Work of a British Engineer in the Cape Colony - Talk by Dennis Walters

The Wreck of the Portuguese Slaver, Saõ José - presented by Jaco Boshoff

The Zulu Wars exhibition at The Brenthurst Library

Then and Now - St James to Simon's Town - 8 November 2018

Then and Now book launch including exclusive tour of the John Moffat Building

Thieves, Disruptors and Colonial Agents in Disguise: Dissecting Missionaries ‘Collections’

This exhibition is a tribute to the endurance of a Chinese family that made South Africa their home

Thorolds Bargain Book Sale

Thorolds Book Farm open every second Saturday of the month

Thorolds Epic Book Sale - 12 May 2018

Three centuries of stories about the shaping of Cape Town

Three former Vice-Chancellors talk about Wits 100

Three New Blue Plaques for Troyeville - Walking Tour 26 May 2018

Three walking tours exploring Joburg's architecture, personalities and its Jacarandas!

Through the eyes of an archaeologist - Celebrating the life and work of Prof Revil Mason

Time travel through the architectural styles of Johannesburg - 3 June 2018

Titan without a Profile: The Life and Times of Wilton Mkwayi - Book Launch

Tiyo Soga's Mission Church at Mgwali - 17 February 2024

To be or not to be – A look at the place of Zimbabwean rock art in Southern Africa

Tombstone Recording at Westpark Cemetery

Tour of Badfontein, Bokoni & Coromandel with Mpumalanga Heritage

Tour of Bedford Court (St Andrews School for Girls) - 5 November 2016

Tour of Brixton Cemetery - 1 July 2017

Tour of Church Square - 14 March 2020

Tour of Constitution Hill with Lucille Davie - 21 November 2020

Tour of Cuthberts and its Neighbours - 12 August 2017

Tour of Heidelberg and Val District

Tour of Helvetia and some nearby historic sites - 10 February 2018

Tour of Historic Esselen Park - 11 February 2017

Tour of Historic Farmstead

Tour of Historic Hazyview

Tour of Historic Hollard Street - 2 March 2019

Tour of Historic Machadodorp

Tour of Historic Waterval Boven - 9 June 2018

Tour of Historical Onderberg - 24 April 2021

Tour of historical sites connected with Jamestown

Tour of Irma Stern Museum

Tour of Johannesburg's Historic Observatory - 20 May 2016

Tour of Joubert & Seuns Wagon Collection and Workshop - 11 May 2019

Tour of Kirstenbosch greenhouses and special collections nursery

Tour of Modernist Architecture in Paarl - 22 February 2019

Tour of Norman Eaton's Masterpiece - Aug and Sep 2025

Tour of Northwards, Parktown - 10 May 2025

Tour of old Jewish Johannesburg - 26 February 2017

Tour of Roedean's Gardens - 5 October 2019

Tour of Salem - 15 May 2021

Tour of Sasol Place with GIfA

Tour of Sophiatown - 7 December 2019

Tour of the Cape Town Diamond Museum - 8 March 2018

Tour of the famous Jansen House in Struben Street Pretoria - 17 September 2016

Tour of the historic Sonop Mens Hostel Broolyn Pretoria

Tour of the KwaMaqoma Museum - 19 September 2025

Tour of the lesser known attractions of Noordhoek

Tour of the lost mining settlement of Jamestown - 10 June 2017

Tour of the Market Theatre Precinct with Wayne Mansfield

Tour of the Mount Nelson - 15 August 2019

Tour of the old Mapoch Battlefields - 15 July 2017

Tour of the oldest Masonic Temple in the Southern Hemisphere - Saturday 17 March 2018

Tour of the restored Johannesburg Art Gallery - 18 July 2016

Tour of the Rock Art Gallery at the Origins Centre - 3 March 2018

Tour of the Sammy Marks Museum - 9 July 2016

Tour of the Wits Anthropology Museum with GIfA

Tour of the Women's Jail at Constitutional Hill - 14 August 2021

Tour of Tracey's Folly - 15 July 2017

Tour of Vergelegen Wine Estate with Alistair Tite - 7 August 2021

Tour one of Cape Town's hidden gardens

Tour the wonderful interior of Lindfield House

Touring the Constitutional Court with Justice Albie Sachs

Touring the Lowveld with two famous authors!

Tourism Talk with Unathi Henama

Townscapes and household archaeology in north-western Zanzibar: a case study from Tumbatu and Mkokotoni

Traces, Glimmers, Residues, and Specks of Things: Seeking and Making LGBTI Archives

Tracing the Origins of the Old Harbour Road and Long Tom Pass - 11 March 2017

Tradition and Detail – the Johannesburg Country Club - 19 February 2022

Traditional glues and poisons used by San in Namibia - the archaeological implications

Trailblazers Against the Odds - Talk 28 August 2021

Trails to celebrate Mrs HS Ball of chutney fame and the golfer Bobby Locke

Travel by steam from Park Station to Magaliesburg

Travelling with explorer William Burchell 200 years ago

Treasure House of Knowledge - Exhibition commemorates 200 years of documentary heritage

Tree walking tour - 11 December 2022

Tree-walking tour - 19 November 2022

Tribute to Letta Mbulu - 24 September 2018

Trouble on the Tarka - Talk by Dr Brent Sinclair-Thompson

Tuesday 24 April marks 100 years of Fish Hoek town as we know it

TUKS Campus Walking Tour - 1 October 2016

Turning point of the South African War in the Magaliesberg region - 11 May

Two Days, Eleven Heritage Tours

Two Great Talks hosted by the Knysna Historical Society

Two histories of Valkenburg: historic farmstead and psychiatric hospital

Two Must See Book Exhibitions

Two of South Africa's leading storytellers bring history alive!

Two promotional films made in 1970 by Anglo-American for the Marina Da Gama project - 27 May 2024

Two super book sales in one weekend - 12-13 October 2019

Ubuntu and Cultural Heritage - Continuing MSU-South Africa Partnerships

Ubuntu Honours to Biko’s wife

UCT Heritage Resources Management Course - 28 – 30 August 2019

UCT Heritage Resources Management Course 2021

UCT Heritage Resources Management Course 2022

UCT Heritage Resources Management Course 2023

UCT Short Course - Heritage Law and Its Administration

Umgeni Steam Railway - August Running Day

Umgeni Steam Railway - September Running Day

Umgeni Steam Railway Open Day & Fundraiser - 26 June 2022

Understanding local place-making traditions and interpreting the Werf Rehabilitation at Spier

Undertaking the Swartland Rural Heritage Survey - VASSA Talk

Underwater Photographer of the Year 2016 exhibition

Underwater Photographer of the Year 2017

Union Observatory - Johannesburg's Hidden Astronomical Heritage - 13 March 2021

Unique Exhibition of Old Paintings of Pretoria

Unlocking the secrets from earlier hominin technology - 16 May 2024

Unravelling the mystery of the origins of the Yeoville Water Tower

Unveiling Ceremony - Blue Plaque for Legendary Boxing Promoter Theo Mthembu

Unveiling of Blue Plaques for Kruger Farmhouse at Kedar Heritage Lodge (Boekenhoutfontein)

Unveiling of Blue Plaques to commemorate the 121st anniversary of the Battle of Diamond Hill - 12 June 2021

Unveiling of Durbanville Plaques

Unveiling of Jock Waymarker at Pettigrew Neck - 11 February 2017

Unveiling of the Mandela Legacy Canvas

Unveiling of the Memorial to Africa's First Black Olympians - 17 September 2022

Unveiling of the Provincial Heritage Site plaque for the Aural Masjied

Upcoming Lectures hosted by the Drakenstein Heritage Foundation

Upper Bathurst Historical Trail - 3 November 2024

Urban Heritage Strategies course

Using 'heritage' to protect public spaces - A talk by Antonia Malan

Using technology and online media in museums

Using technology and online media in museums!

Val Hotel Celebrates 30 Years - 23 August 2025

Van Plettenberg History Society AGM including talk on creating your own family tree

Vanished Civilisations - Annual Symposium of the South African Archaeological Society - Northern Branch

Variation and change in the architecture of early farm dwellings around Pretoria

VASSA Outing - The Cape house that Dirkie Neethling built using recycled materials

VASSA Outing - La Cotte (picnic at the Huguenot Memorial Museum)

VASSA Outing - Poespaskraal, Fish Hoek Valley and the Glencairn Watermill

VASSA Outing - Valkenburg and the Royal Observatory

VASSA Outing to False Bay

VASSA Talk - Fernwood Newlands by Andrew Berman

VASSA Talk - Rock Engravings of nineteenth century Karoo domestic architecture

Vereeniging Peace Treaty Commemoration (including talk by architects restoring the Witkop Blockhouse)

Vernacular Archives Conference - 19-21 November 2019

Very Downton Abbey - Glenshiel and its Neighbours - 12 November 2017

Very Downton Abbey - Glenshiel and its neighbours - 20 October 2019

Veteran Militaria Fair Muldersdrift - 30 September 2018

Veteran Military Fair - 18 August 2019

Veteran Military Fair Edenvale 2019

Veteran Military Fair West Rand - 30th September 2018

View gems uncovered in the Children's Memorial Institute Archive

View two of the largest and most valuable private collections in South Africa

Villa Heimann - A Lost Monument

Vincent Carruthers' Magaliesberg - 18 January 2020

Vintage and Classic Motor Show at the James Hall Museum of Transport

Violent Histories and Experiences of South African Women and Children during Wars, Conflicts and Pandemics - 24-26 November 2022

Virtual Book Launch - Illustrated History of Hartbeespoort Dam - 11 June 2022

Virtual Book Talk - History of South Africa from 1902 to the Present

Virtual Launch of Bloody Sunday

Virtual Museum Opening - Jordaan & Jourdan Families

Virtual Tour - Art Deco and Streamlined Moderne Architecture of our City - 11 July 2020

Virtual Tour - Public Art, Monuments and Counter-Monuments - 18 July 2020

Virtual Tour of Art Deco Springs - 15 August 2020

Virtual Tour of Hillbrow - 27 March 2021

Virtual Tour of Noordgesig - 6 February 2021

Virtual Tour of Soweto - 19 January 2021

Virtual Tour of the Ditsong National Military History Museum - 17 July 2021

Virtual Tour of the Orange Grove Waterfall - 20 June 2020

Visit Goede Hoop Masonic Lodge - 23 April 2022

Visit La Motte before it closes for major building work - 13 April 2022

Visit South Africa's first Perfume Museum - 3 August 2017

Visit the 'Who built Cape Town?' exhibition this Heritage Month

Visit the Barberton-Makhonjwa Mountains - 9 April 2022

Visit the historic Elsenburg College of Agriculture

Visit the Irma Stern Museum

Visit the Karoo heartland with its world-famous fossil heritage - 6-10 October 2022

Visit the majestic gardens of historic Moot House Parktown

Visit the old TPA Building with Architect Adriaan Louw

Visit the West Coast Fossil Park with Jo Noero and Pippa Haarhoff - 9 April 2022

Visit to Stephanie Fassler's Studio - 23 March 2018

Visit to the Castle of Good Hope with the Durbanville Heritage Society - 28 September 2024

Visit to the old Lisbon / Berlin Goldfields - 12 March 2022

Visit to the Vergelegen Library

Visit two historic Constantia Hotels

Visit West Coast Fossil Park to see the buildings designed by Noero Architects

Visiting the largest mosque in the southern hemisphere

VOC Mines on Boschendal - 27 April 2024

Volunteer at the Wilds - 21 January 2017

Voortrekker Monument at Night

Voyage of discovery at Marianhill Monastery - New Tour

W.G. Atherstone and the Namaqualand copper boom of 1854 - 30 May 2017

Wakkerstroom turns 160 in 2019!

Walk around the western edge of the Joburg CBD with Lucille Davie

Walk in Gandhi's footsteps in Johannesburg - 16 June 2018

Walk the history of Huddle Park - 6 November 2022

Walk to Elsies Peak - 17 November 2018

Walk to Peers and Tunnel Caves - 12 July 2017

Walkabout of the exhibition 'Pastoral Pieces: Significant African Objects from JAG’s historical collections'

Walkabout through the Parliament Art Collection with artworks manager Lila Komnick - 18 February 2017

Walking and Goldmine Tours at Kloofendal Reserve

Walking on the Wild Side of Kirstenbosch - 9 June 2021

Walking the Streets with Famous Ladies - 21 August 2021

Walking Tour of Arderne Gardens - 10 April & 14 April 2021

Walking Tour of Belgravia - 21 September 2019

Walking Tour of Braamfontein - 7 March 2020

Walking Tour of Brixton - 1 April 2017

Walking Tour of Brixton - 29 October 2016

Walking Tour of Brixton - 9 September 2017

Walking tour of Green Point with historian, author and guide Helen Robinson

Walking tour of Herbert Baker buildings in Cape Town CBD

Walking tour of historic Pretoria - 24 September 2016

Walking tour of Joburg's oldest trees - 23 October 2022

Walking Tour of Kensington - 4 February 2022

Walking Tour of Linden - 9 May 2020

Walking Tour of Melville - 7 November 2021

Walking Tour of Muizenberg's heritage - September 2024

Walking Tour of North Lodge, Outeniqua and Eikenlaan - 17 August 2019

Walking Tour of Rand Airport - 27 January 2018

Walking Tour of Rand Airport - 7 September 2019

Walking Tour of Satyagraha House - 2 July 2016

Walking tour of Sophiatown - 10 February 2018

Walking Tour of St Johns College - 19 February 2017

Walking Tour of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre

Walking tour of three of Parktown's most romantic mansions - 17 November 2018

Walking Tour of Victoria Yards - 10 February 2018

Walking Tour of Victoria Yards - 7 July 2019

Walking Tour of Yeoville - 10 July 2016

Walking Tour of Yeoville - 28 August 2016

Walter Battiss: "I invented myself" The Jack Ginsberg Collection - Extended Closing Date

Walter Battiss: "I invented myself" The Jack Ginsberg Collection at WAM

WAM Talkabout - Life and Work of Moses Tladi

WAM Talkabout - Walter Battiss "I invented myself" The Jack Ginsberg Collection

Wanted - Trowel Toting Dust Pioneers

War in the East Bus Tour - 1 June 2019

War, Disease and Revolt – Primrose Cemetery Tour - 9 November 2019

Warren Siebrits in conversation with William Kentridge - 13 August 2022

Was the Southern Cape an Incubator of Early Human Development? Lecture by Dr Jerome Reynard

Water Tour of Pretoria

We Design 2016 - Calling for a national spatial revolution

We will Rock You - Nooitgedacht Geology and Rock Engraving Day Tour - 16 May 2021

Webinar on South African War Sites of Remembrance

Webinar series for Archivists: Reaching Your Audience Digitally

Weekend Outing to Bushman Rock Shelter and Heuningneskrans - 11-12 October 2025

West Coast Fossil Park Tour & Talk - 14 May 2022

Westcliff - Purple Passages - 23 October 2016

What can we claim as our heritage from the life of Charlotte Maxeke?

What do we mean when we use the word 'authenticity' - Talk by Dr Stephen Townsend

What does it mean to decolonise heritage?

What makes us (s)tick? How replicated adhesives help us understand ancient cognition

What Simon Said - A Simon's Town Heritage Walking Tour

What’s new at the Paleolithic site of Sefunim Cave, Israel?

When Darwin was in the Cape - Talk 9 December 2022

Where Pious People Dwelled - A Presentation Dr JA van Schalkwyk

Who decides what gets to be remembered into the Future? 27 October 2021

Why such lively people spend their time in graveyards - 23 October 2021

Wiki Loves Monuments Awards Ceremony 2015

William Burchell and David Livingstone tour - 8 November 2019

William Burchell Tour - 20 March 2026

William Burchell Tour - 31 October 2025

William Frederick Henry Pocock (1857 – 1922) Pioneer Pharmacist, Civic Leader and Photographer: Now and Then Photos of Muizenberg to Simon's Town

Windybrow - The Great Survivor

Wits Business School - Hidden Heritage - 24 September 2022

Wits Choir 55th Anniversary Concert

Wits History Workshop Seminar Schedule - March to April 2022

Wits History Workshop Seminar Schedule August-November 2022

Wits Planetarium Centenary Shows

Wits SRC Heritage Arts & Culture Fest 2016

Wits University Press - Centenary Book Sale

Women of Dube Tour - 27 August 2022

Women of early Johannesburg in Braamfontein Cemetery - 21 August 2022

Women's Day Lecture and Demonstration on Medieval Stained Glass Painting Techniques

Wonderful Historical Trees of Pretoria - Talk 17 August 2017

Wonders of Rock Art Lascaux Cave and Africa

Workers’ struggle, strikes and popular revolt in Newtown and Fordsburg with Eric Itzkin

Works - An exhibition by dhk architects

Workshop on Archives and Museums - 25 April 2018

Workshop on Memorialising Inequality with a site visit to the Rissik Street Post Office

Workshop on the National Policy on the Digitisation of Arts, Culture and Heritage

Workshop on the Recording of Buildings - 30-31 October 2021

Workshop to support the revitalisation of the N!uu language

World War I Armistice Day Centenary Exhibition at Klerksdorp Museum

Would you link to volunteer at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre?

Wreath-laying Ceremony to Honor Dr. Melville Edelstein

Writers Workshop hosted by SAIA & PPC - 31 August 2018

Wupperthal, an object of people and place - A talk by Marike Franklin

Yoga at iconic heritage venue

Youth and generation in South African historiography

Youth Culture Dialogue - 46 years later how far have we come?

Zimbabwe Rock Art: Hidden Jewel of Southern Africa - 28 October 2023

Zonderwater - A Hidden History

‘Sammy Marks: The Uncrowned King of the Transvaal’ Revisited - 26 March 2026

‘Shared Memories of a Forgotten People’ - 50th Anniversary of Simon’s Town’s Forced Removals

‘The bees are our sheep’: the transition to livestock keeping during the last two thousand years in southernmost Africa

“For Future Generations - Hugh Tracy and the International Library for African Music” Exhibition Opening