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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 remarkable life of Charlotte Maxeke
  • The 1912 super-athlete from South Africa – Kenneth McArthur
  • Soweto Theatre speaks in many languages
  • South Africa's Tallest Building in 1933
  • The Big Fiery Giant - The Story of the Beyer-Garratt Locomotive
  • The Klass Brothers - seven storeys of cultural history
  • "I knew in that instant that my life on the run was over" - The capture of Nelson Mandela 5 August 1962
  • An unusual little book revealing Johannesburg in 1949
  • The Preservation of Diagonal Street
  • The path to one of the highest points in South Africa
  • Blue plaques and their inspiring possibilities
  • Rider Haggard - Lost in Pretoria?
  • Our Forgotten Heritage – The Beleaguered Blockhouses
  • Forty Years Later... SAS Protea and the Kaiyo Maru
  • Cape Peninsular - Manganese Hikes and Mines

From the Directory

  • Joburg Places
  • Mahikeng Society
  • Vidamemoria Heritage Consultants
  • South East Witwatersrand Family History Society (SEWFHS)
  • Parkmore Community Association (PCA)
  • Heritage Potchefstroom Erfenis
  • Cape Town Walking Tours
  • Cory Library for Historical Research
  • Westcliff Residents Association (WRA)
  • Eastern Cape Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (ECPHRA)
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