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Stories from Joburg in the early 2000s

  • Madoda Tshabalala – the taxi driver we love to hate
  • Ravi Lalla - pillar to post to prosperity in Jeppestown
  • Frans Beleni – underground man
  • Flo Bird - house by house, street by street
  • Charles Rhangani Furumele - meeting ends for the children
  • Kenneth Stanley Birch – born in 1914, Johannesburg memorialist
  • Melanie Yap - Chinese voice
  • The easy life of Doris Mosikele
  • Irving Lissoos - coming of age in Jewish Johannesburg
  • Ken Boffard - wrestling the Grim Reaper
  • Clive Chipkin - ‘No coherence!’
  • The Klass Brothers - seven storeys of cultural history
  • Mervyn King - man who sets the rules
  • Ronel Bischoff - woman in charge
  • Neil Fraser - reclamation champion
  • Joburg personalities from the first decade of the 21st century

From our Archive

  • A short history of the Siege of Elands River Post
  • Art Deco Durban
  • Finding Antonetta Elizabeth Cosslett: a personal exploration of a family mystery
  • South African medical students in Bonnie Scotland during the 1870s
  • Historic Tiger Kloof Hall Reborn
  • South African Railways – the years of transition from steam
  • The Village and Buildings of Cullinan
  • The Fall of Pretoria, June 1900
  • Looking Out Over the Highest Yew Hedge in the World
  • Fort Pine - Place of refuge after the battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift
  • A Vision for Chinatown - The Remarkable Mr Walter Pon
  • The Story Behind the Tower of Light
  • The Eccentric Engineer
  • “In Memoriam” - Significance of the photograph during the mourning process
  • A Short History of Steel

From the Directory

  • Hilton Steam Heritage Association
  • Totem Media
  • KlipSA (Klipriviersberg Sustainability Association)
  • Tsica Heritage Consultants
  • Friends of the Knysna Libraries
  • Mayat Hart Architecture
  • Erica Davison THL
  • Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • Ceres Rail Company
  • Africa Media Online
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