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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

  • The Laurels - A Piece of Mooi River History
  • The History of Westcliff
  • Windybrow and Theodore Reunert
  • Zonderwater - Almost certainly the Largest Allied POW Camp in the World
  • Herman Charles Bosman, Joburg man
  • A Brief History of Parkview
  • The material culture of neglect in a set of heritage houses, Sunnyside, Pretoria
  • The Place of Kasteelberg in Khoekhoe History
  • South Africa needs a Fred Dibnah
  • My Mission School Memories - Inanda Seminary
  • The birth certificate of the Yeoville Water Tower
  • One of the most extraordinary archaeological and historical phenomena in Southern Africa
  • Sandton almost had a beach
  • Sandton has History!
  • The town that plague built

From the Directory

  • Prof Walter Peters - Architect & Heritage Practitioner
  • Mira Fassler Kamstra - Retired
  • South African Institute of Architects (SAIA)
  • Stellenbosch Interest Group
  • Italcotto Roofing
  • Kensington Heritage Trust
  • George Heritage Trust
  • Louwkul Design Lab
  • Old Wynberg Village Society
  • South African Athletics Heritage Group
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