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Mining History

  • Sending Radio Signals through Rock
  • An early South African Philaphotographologist - Frederick William Willis
  • Knysna Gold - How it all started
  • Coal mining and the Anglo Boer War 1899-1902
  • The Death of James Christie Grant
  • More gold comes from the southern half of Western Australia than from South Africa
  • The Richest Goldfield in the World turns 135
  • New Lease of Life for Giant Mining Stamp from 1886
  • William English - From Trapper Boy to Toff
  • The Epic March of 7 000 Zulu Workers
  • Cape Peninsular - Manganese Hikes and Mines
  • Diamond Smugglers' Aircraft on a Deserted Beach - Unravelling the story around discarded crime scene photographs
  • Alluvial Diamond Digging at Holpan
  • Frans Beleni – underground man
  • The first re-discovery of gold in the Transvaal
  • Kenneth Birch and his appreciation of the Witwatersrand Mining landscape
  • A short sharp history of the Marikana Railway Station, est. 1910
  • Racing in the shadows of mine dumps: Black African cycle sport on South Africa's gold mines in the apartheid era
  • The Gold Rushes of the Victorian Era
  • The search for gold in the Free State

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From our Archive

  • The Tanzania - Zambia Railway
  • Hector's sister tells the story still
  • Old Park Station - A heritage site of exceptional significance comes alive again!
  • The Author and the Archaeologist - Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan
  • A Vision for Chinatown - The Remarkable Mr Walter Pon
  • Hermanus and HRH Princess Alice
  • South African Radar in the Overstrand in World War II
  • Joburg’s castles
  • Windybrow in Context - From Theodore Reunert Home to Windybrow Arts Centre
  • 150 Year Old Settler Church Restored!
  • Remembering the First Trans-Africa Flight
  • Knysna Gold - How it all started
  • The Eccentric Engineer
  • Durban architectural gem under threat
  • The Indian War Memorial: National Memory and Selective Forgetting

From the Directory

  • Tony Westby-Nunn
  • Joline Young Heritage Consultancy
  • Old Pretoria East Residents and Ratepayers Alliance (OPERRA)
  • Braamfontein Spruit Trust
  • Historic Building Consultants
  • GLH Architects
  • A J Renovatum
  • Barry Pringle Photography
  • Fort Beaufort Heritage Revive
  • Sibambene Bolt Heritage Construction
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