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Past Masters Series

  • William Brounger and the Cape Railways
  • Hermann Schutte - Designer of South Africa's First Lighthouse
  • Louis Michel Thibault - Ex-Mercenary whose Heritage Enriched the Cape
  • James Cameron - Second City Engineer of Cape Town
  • John Hamilton Wicksteed - The competent young engineer who came to a sad end
  • James Bisset - Bringing Mass Transport to the Suburbs
  • George Pauling - Leading railway contractor in the development of Southern Africa
  • Thomas Stewart - First South African Consulting Engineer
  • John Gamble - Maths Prodigy who Preferred Engineering
  • Sir John Coode - International Harbour Master
  • John Frederick Bourne - Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy
  • Richard Thomas Hall - Railwayman in a Remote Part of the Colony
  • Patrick Fletcher - Versatile Pioneer
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • John Scott Tucker - Ineffective Official who Abolished his own Post
  • Charles Davidson Bell - Renaissance Man at the Cape
  • George Pilkington - The Elderly Gentleman Who Kept up The Good Work
  • Thomas Charles John Bain - One of South Africa's greatest engineers
  • Murrell Robinson Robinson - Dedicated Public Servant
  • Henry Fancourt White - Pass-builder Remembered by Golfers

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From our Archive

  • A Brief History of Parkview
  • Life at the National Trust
  • When Johannesburg became a City!
  • Thomas Charles John Bain - One of South Africa's greatest engineers
  • The Founding of Potchefstroom
  • Homage to Zoo Lake, Johannesburg
  • Unicorns in the Stormberg - New light on an old mystery
  • Old clock returns home (in 1978) after 80 years
  • The Missionary Beginnings of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
  • Visiting the oldest extant cemetery in South Africa
  • Dr. Beeching, Hero or Villain?
  • Soap Houses of the Karoo
  • Ken Boffard - wrestling the Grim Reaper
  • Modern British-Built Trams for Johannesburg’s British Empire Exhibition in 1936
  • A visit to the South African Airways Museum at Rand Airport

From the Directory

  • Modderfontein Conservation Society
  • Bibliophile
  • Joint Plans Committee East
  • Hearth Heritage
  • Digital Rail Images of South Africa (DRISA)
  • Amambatha Heritage Society (AHS)
  • City Bowl Ratepayers and Residents Association (CIBRA)
  • Rod Kruger - Gold Mining Talks and Tours
  • Linares Architects and Associates
  • Village Timber
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