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British 'heroes' commemorated in Kensington street names
The Achmat Dangor Legacy Project – celebrating the extraordinary life of a prolific writer and champion for truth, justice and equality
The Scottish Horse Memorial: Honouring the Fallen in Edinburgh and Johannesburg
"A Great City Deserves Great Cathedrals"
'More than a Shop' - Fanny Klenerman and the Vanguard Bookshop in Johannesburg
'One of our few remaining links with a bygone Johannesburg'
10 000 attend Taffy Long's funeral in 1922
16 300 books... and counting
44 Main Street - The Jewel in Anglo's Crown
80 Albert Street - The nerve centre for controlling black people's lives during the early stages of apartheid
A Brief History of Parkview
A Brief History of Windybrow
A Deeper Look at Johannesburg's New Street Names
A delightful 1987 calendar celebrating the centenary of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
A Depressing Visit to George Harrison Park
A few memories of Indian Elephants at the Joburg Zoo
A few photographs of Johannesburg at the turn of the 20th century
A flag for the Con Court, with help from an elephant
A horologist, but much more
A hundred years ago: St John’s College, Johannesburg, in 1920
A journey into the rich history of the vandalised Scottish Horse Memorial Kensington
A Lone Hill of National Importance
A Monument to South African Friendship - Gandhi and Kallenbach
A new perspective on Johannesburg trams
A paper on the origins of the original Witwatersrand Gold Fields with special reference to the Witwatersrand Ridge
A Peep Into My Life - The Memoir of William Eastwood
A priceless Joburg archive - Q&A with Lucille Davie
A remarkable album of early 20th century views of Johannesburg
A remarkable Johannesburg-based female portrait artist: Sara Buijskes (1886 - 1970)
A Remarkable Journey Inside the Johannesburg City Hall (Gauteng Legislature)
A remarkable set of 33 postcards of Johannesburg circa 1904-08
A secret heritage home on the Kensington ridge
A Short History of Craighall
A Short History of the Jewish Community in Joburg
A Short History of the Mulberry Tree
A Short History of the Pepper Tree
A stroll through the Eastern Joburg suburbs of Orchards, Maryvale, Sydenham and Orange Grove
A tribute to Werner Kirchhoff - Surveyor of distinction and an early pioneer of South African satellite geodesy
A Vision for Chinatown - The Remarkable Mr Walter Pon
A visit to Moot House Parktown
Abdul Rahim Munshi - Possibly South Africa’s First Recorded Studio Photographer of Colour
ABSA's huge plans for the Joburg CBD
Activism by Sandton Ratepayers in the 1990s
Aerial photographs that tell two stories!
Africa's first Wikipedia City
Aiton Court: Relocating Conservation between Poverty and Modern Idealism
All the winners from the Herbert Prins Colosseum Awards
AmaWasha - Jozi's first black businessmen
Amazing Photographs of Historic Nedbank Branches
Amazing places to view the Joburg skyline
Amazing places to view the Sandton skyline
An early South African Philaphotographologist - Frederick William Willis
An intriguing century old pamphlet of the 1913 Mineworkers Strike
An opportunity to purchase an original Johannesburg Title Deed
An unusual little book revealing Johannesburg in 1949
Anna H Smith - City Librarian, Johannesburg Public Library 1960-1975
Asian food snails in Zoo Lake - A living legacy of Chinese indentured labourers on the gold fields of 1904?
Attempted Assassination at Rand Show
Barnett's Views of Johannesburg and Suburbs - A window on the world that was early Johannesburg
Beyers Naudé - From Pariah to National Hero
Bez Valley War Memorial to be moved
Blue Plaque celebrates Freemasons Hall, Parktown
Blue Plaque commemorates landmark home on the Linksfield Ridge
Blue Plaque Honours Helen Suzman
Blue plaques and a new heritage route for Jeppe Boys
Blue plaques and their inspiring possibilities
Blue Plaques celebrate Hermann Kallenbach, renowned architect and friend of Gandhi
Blue plaques unveiled on historic Solomon Street workers compounds
Brass Plaque reveals a history of a distinguished man and his architectural firm
Brenthurst, Joburg’s breathtaking secret garden
Brian McKechnie: heritage, passion and cars
Brixton's First Blue Plaque
Building Africa's Tallest Building - The Leonardo, Sandton
Busting Out - Transplanting the heart of Johannesburg in the 1960s
Bygone fortune seeker and rail restauranteur Theodor Fiebiger
Caring for the injured after the Johannesburg Station bombing
Carl von Brandis - The Father of Johannesburg
Celebrating Chinese New Year in Cyrildene
Celebrating Flo Bird - 80 Years of a Remarkable Life
Celebrating the remarkable life of Herbert Prins
Census 1896 - The Making of Johannesburg
Chappies, a Joburg creation
Checklist for Heritage Warriors
Chinese New Year Lights Up Johannesburg's Derrick Avenue in Cultural Spectacle
Circa has landed
City of Joburg honours the first national publication aimed solely at a black readership
Civic Spine 1989-1991 - The voice of the architects
Clara Goad - The Story Behind One of the Earliest Graves in Braamfontein Cemetery
Clarendon Circle - Then and Now
Cleaning the Joburg Cenotaph - Before, During and After
Condemned Castle Cries for Help!
Da Gama Park - A little known park with some of the best views of Johannesburg
Deanery then, Koekfontein now - The story of a grand home in Upper Houghton
Deep concern for Parktown's oldest surviving house
Deep-level mining photography: The Elusive Neilson Brothers demystified - with additional information on James Wilbur Read
Delight at discovering a hidden aspect of Johannesburg - imPRESSed Craft Bindery Letterpress and Studio
Delta Sewage Disposal Works, 1934 to 1963
Designing 1 Merchant Place Sandton
Destination Hillbrow - celebrating walking, living and heritage
Dolobran mansion sits smugly among Baker's Joburg icons
Dorkay House hangs on
Early History of the Drill Hall
Early Panoramic Johannesburg
Early Settlers and Prospectors in Sandton
End of an era for historic mining firm
Enigmatic Johannesburg-based Female Photographer, Jane Plotz
Exploring the Syringa Tree
Finding Antonetta Elizabeth Cosslett: a personal exploration of a family mystery
Finding Mr Patel’s outfitter shop in Rockey Street
Finding the missing link in the Gold Fields Collection
Fire Destroys Johannesburg Heritage Home
Five homes in bohemian Parktown
Five Sneaky Blue Plaques
Flo Bird - house by house, street by street
Flo Bird - Joburg’s diminutive dynamite
Flo Bird's Speech at the Opening of the Newly Rebuilt Rand Steam Laundries - 25 April 2019
Foster Gang Detective Tells his Story
Foster Gang: Raiders of the Secret Cave
Frans Beleni – underground man
From Dortmund with Love - The Yeoville Water Tower in Johannesburg, 1913-1914
Gandhi - Inclusive Icon or Sectarian Symbol
Gandhi on trial in South Africa, again
Gandhi's house for sale (sold in 2009)
Gauteng’s only artesian spring
George Bizos loves Joburgers
George Harrison Park - A Battle Lost?
German connections and the overall significance of the Yeoville Water Tower
Going Inside the Kensington Castle
Gone but not Forgotten - Johannesburg's oldest Mosque
Gone but not forgotten - The landmark Barlow Fountain
Goodbye Johannesburg, Hello..... (A poem by Mike Alfred)
Growing up on a Sandton Farm
Hard Rock Mining in South Africa - The Cornish Connection
Harrow Road stonework in Houghton - The wall built by Barnett Lobel
Hector Pieterson gets his memorial
Herbert Baker’s Stonehouse captures his spirit
Heritage body expresses concern about fire risk facing the city’s heritage; calls for commission of inquiry
Heritage Heist - The mystery and intrigue behind Yukon's missing windows
Heritage Honours Awarded at Tolstoy Farm
Heritage hooray for Rand Steam
Heritage Horror Stories highlighted by new action group
Heritage Lobby applauds Public Works!
Herman Charles Bosman, Joburg man
HF Gros and his remarkable collection of early Transvaal Photographs
Hidden arcade re-emerges after four and a half decades
Historic photographs of Apartheid Johannesburg in the 1980s
Historic recipe books are an aspect of cultural history
Historic sculptures at St Andrew’s School for Girls restored
History of Parkmore 1904-1960s
History of the Ditsong National Museum of Military History
History of the Rissik Street Post Office Clock
Hohenheim - The Life and Death of one of Johannesburg's Great Historic Homes
Hollard saves Arcadia and gets the best view around
Homage to Zoo Lake, Johannesburg
Houghton was nearly a Mining Township
Houghton, Orange Grove, Killarney, Mayfair and Greenside get blue plaques!
How the name of Clarendon Place came about
Hugh Lane's Vision for the Johannesburg Art Gallery
Hunting for Rivonia's First Shop
I'll Break OK Bazaars
Iconic heritage home survives in Yeoville
Iconic painting reveals close relationship between Churchill and Smuts
Iconic Rotunda being vandalised
Illegal advertising on Old Park Station - Has MTN missed an opportunity?
Illegal Dumping Scars Blue Plaque Site
In conversation with Jan van Wijk - The refurbishment of the Rembrandt Gallery, Wits University
Inner City Snapshot - November 2016
Inner City Tourism Booming
Inside Chadrien Place Sandton
Inside San Remo Yeoville
Inside Sutton Place Sandton
Inside Village Walk Sandton
Irving Lissoos - coming of age in Jewish Johannesburg
Is it heritage? Graffiti wall art and Pinki’s Inn, Jeppestown
JHF Responds to UrbanJoburg’s bewareofcolour commentary
Joburg gets a new online heritage system!
Joburg is ready for a raid
Joburg personalities from the first decade of the 21st century
Joburg's Khoisan ancestors
Joburg's oldest surviving bank building is coming back to life!
Joburg’s Castles
Joburg’s first trees
Joburg’s firsts
Joburg’s market square defined the town
Johannesburg - A Goldfield Discovered
Johannesburg 1936... Keeping an eye out for souvenir survivals
Johannesburg as seen through the eyes of a young schoolboy in the late 1940s, early 1950s and later as a young married man in the early 1960s
Johannesburg based artist’s 1960s photographic portfolio resurfaces
Johannesburg celebrates its 130th birthday!
Johannesburg celebrates the Coronation of King Edward VII in 1902
Johannesburg Heritage Foundation -  2019 achievements and the year ahead 
Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Report - December 2012
Johannesburg in 1893
Johannesburg in a lithograph circa 1937 - In search of Charles Ernest Peers (Part 1)
Johannesburg in postcards 1904-08
Johannesburg Mayor's Office to move to the old Albert Street Pass Office
Johannesburg panoramas – a tour of note with Chipkin and Munro
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Buildings over the Decades
Johannesburg Sun - Planning Africa's Biggest Hotel
Johannesburg Underground - A Lost Opportunity
Johannesburg's Beerhalls Crisis
Johannesburg's Camera Obscura and a world-class photographic collection
Johannesburg's Early Markets
Johannesburg's First Air Conditioned Building
Johannesburg's First Lift
Johannesburg’s ice-cream vendors choose a free-wheeling life
Johannesburg’s mayors
Joubert Park In Danger - Herbert Prins Speaks Out
Joubert Park Lives - A 2016 Visit
Journal of a visit to the Gold Fields in 1889
Kate’s Legacy - Seeking the family of an abandoned box of beautiful old photographs
Kathy Munro visits one of the top libraries in the world!
Kathy Munro visits the Joburg Firsts Exhibition
Ken Boffard - wrestling the Grim Reaper
Kenneth Birch and his appreciation of the Witwatersrand Mining landscape
Kenneth Stanley Birch – born in 1914, Johannesburg memorialist
Killarney is stylish living
Kippies, the club that wasn't there
Last Chance to see 'A City Refracted'
Life in exile for the teenagers who survived June 16th
Life was hard for a woman on the Rand in the early days
Liliesleaf - Making a case for survival
Locating the Victims of the 1922 Rand Revolt
Looking back at Johannesburg's Civic Spine controversy
Looking back at the restoration of the Barbican Building
Looking back on the restoration of Johannesburg's Old Fort
Looking back on the restoration of the majestic Reserve Bank Building
Madoda Tshabalala – the taxi driver we love to hate
Maggie Friedman - love, life and death with David Webster
Magistrates’ Courts – blasts, apartheid and art
Mai Mai Market - 'The Place of Healers'
Marc Latilla is a Joburg enthusiast – Then and Now
Markhams Building and the Cape Town Connection
Markhams' battle for survival
Massive Johannesburg CBD project finally moving ahead?
Mayibuye planned a massive onslaught
Melanie Yap - Chinese voice
Melville Koppies bags heritage award
Memorial to President John F Kennedy in Sandton
Memories of my visits to the Kensington Castle
Memories of Parktown Preparatory School (PTPS)
Memories of Rivonia in the 1960s
Memories of the Killarney Film Studios
Memories of the Old Melville Swimming Baths
Mining Headgears - Pure Functionality Ruling over Beauty
Model of 'U-96' donated to the Ditsong National Museum of Military History
Modern British-Built Trams for Johannesburg’s British Empire Exhibition in 1936
Modern Day Mystery - What has happened to the owner of the Kensington Castle?
Modernist Icon Shimmers above Joburg once more
More gold comes from the southern half of Western Australia than from South Africa
More Memories of Parktown Preparatory School (PTPS)
Mourning the loss of a Lower Houghton landmark
Mr. Bellman’s Hangar
Much More than a Mafia: Mavericks, Mentors, and Medical Maestros. The considerable contribution of St John’s College to Medicine
Museum Africa: An internationally renowned Africana collection at risk
Mystery of Braamfontein's arched grave solved!
Neil Fraser - reclamation champion
New Chapter in the History of the Joburg CBD is upon us
New Lease of Life for Giant Mining Stamp from 1886
New mosaic marks the site where the Bezuidenhout Valley War Memorial once stood
Newtown Cooling Towers - Preserve or Demolish?
Newtown Workers' Compound commemorates municipal workers
Newtown's Edwardian Lavatory survives against the odds
Nighttime at the Johannesburg Zoo (and some history)
Nongoloza: King of the Ninevites
Norman House - Gone but not forgotten
Norscot Manor - Built on a scale few could afford today!
Northcliff Hill - Then and Now
Nostalgia and remembrance in the Brixton Cemetery
NZASM Structures of the Rand Tram
NZASM Structures of the Southern Line
Obituary for Clive Michael Chipkin
Old Images of South Africa's Town Halls
Old Park Station - A heritage site of exceptional significance comes alive again!
Old stamp mills finally go home
Old, New and Newest in Braamfontein
On tour with judge Albie Sachs
One of Joburg's Oldest Mansions in a Plumber's Backyard
One of Norwood's oldest homes restored
One of Sandton's oldest structures set to serve the local community
Original 1913 blueprint of the Yeoville Water Tower unveiled
Original blueprint for destroyed Parktown home found
Origins and Architecture of the William Cullen Library at Wits
Origins of Emmarentia Dam
Our City Fathers ought to be Protecting and Defending Joubert Park
Pageview hero stood his ground for 20 years
Parkhurst House had enough explosives to ‘blow up Johannesburg’
Parktown's Forgotten Model Railway
Parktown's oldest house continues to decay
Partnership with Pabst - The Restoration of the Joki House
Peach and cherry orchards in Linden
Peeling back the layers of Orange Grove
Phillip Tobias, the mensch
Photographs of Johannesburg circa 1892
Photographs of Johannesburg in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Photos of Pageview in 1973
Pink Buildings in Johannesburg - Statement by the Egoli Heritage Foundation
Plaque commemorates the final battle of the Rand Revolt
Pritchard Street thrives once again!
Prospecting for gold in the 21st century
Putting Joburg buildings before profits - The legacy of Robin Fee
Q&A with Kathy Munro
Questions on the origins of the name 'Witwatersrand'
Race to the Rand
Radar at Wits: South Africa’s development of radar within three months in World War II
Rand Club - A Grand Past with an Uncertain Future
Ravi Lalla - pillar to post to prosperity in Jeppestown
Raw material for the study of the transition from Boer administration to colonial British management
Re-imagining the Planetarium as the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome
Recent must have Johannesburg books for your book collection
Rediscovering a Herbert Baker House in the heart of Yeoville
Rediscovery of historical survey beacon on Oxford Road
Remarkable Photographs Emerge from Joburg Family Archive
Remembering Bryanston's Grand Hunting Estate
Remembering Chris van Wyk, Riverlea’s storyteller
Remembering exciting finds in Drill Hall development
Remembering Sandton's Famous Stallion
Remembering the 'Eiffel Tower of the Rand'
Remembering the days when my family owned the Three Castles Building
Remembering the End of the Tramcar Era
Remembering the launch of the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation
Requiem to a Johannesburg landmark - The Grand Station Hotel lost to fire
Researching, Recording and Restoration - The Origins of the Johannesburg Historical Society
Response by the Egoli Heritage Foundation to Urban Joburg's blog on Painting the Town Pink
Restoration of the South African War Memorial Saxonwold
Restoring one of Parktown's Greatest Mansions
Resurrection of the Dragon Pillar
Return to Juliwe Cemetery - A community journey
Revil Mason’s Melville Koppies
Rickshaws of early Johannesburg
Ronel Bischoff - woman in charge
Rosendal - A townhouse complex in the Highveld vernacular
Salisbury House shines again (in 2005)
Sandton almost had a beach
Sandton and Randburg 1939-1969 - Experiments in Local Government
Sandton has a new tallest building!
Sandton Shimmers at Night
Sandton's Forgotten Monument
Sandton's Forgotten Race Track
Saving the grave of Bryanston's mystery man
Saving the Rissik Street Post Office from destruction by fire
Secrets of the Brown Family Plot in Brixton Cemetery
Sending Radio Signals through Rock
She took no prisoners and let no grass grow beneath her feet - Franco Frescura pays tribute to Helen Aron
Signs of life at iconic Corner House
Sir William Hoy (1868-1930) - His life beyond Hermanus
Soccer City: an architect’s dream
Solving the Mystery Behind "Grannie's Grave" in Braamfontein Cemetery
Solving the riddle of the site of all the late 1938 to early 1940s burials in the Brixton Cemetery
Some memories of Rosebank in 1966
Some ordinary and extraordinary events from Johannesburg in 1904
Somerset House - A Preservationist's Dilemma
Somerset House's dusty, musty basement
Sophiatown land claim payments top R21m
South Africa's First Multiracial Restaurant during Apartheid
South Africa's forgotten bioscopes
South Africa's newest African heritage and music museum
South African Pavement Photographs (1930s to 1960s) - A Nostalgic reflection
South Africa’s last coppersmith
Spatial Development Plan must address heritage preservation in Johannesburg
Spectacular old photographs of Joburg from above
St Alban's Church breathes again (in 2012)
St John’s College, Johannesburg, and the Spanish flu of 1918
Steffen Ahrends and Ponden House, Bryanston
Step into Victorian Joburg
Stonework Restoration - Standard Bank Chambers
Student in Trouble - Protesting against Apartheid in the 1950s
Stuttafords to be fashionable once again
Subway mural brings Fietas alive (in 2010)
Surviving sites from the 1922 Rand Revolt
Take a drive and see the sites associated with the 1922 Rand Revolt
Ten Forgotten Buildings of Johannesburg
Ten Majestic Joburg Staircases
Ten of Joburg's Most Underrated Buildings
That secret Johannesburg canal and stream
The Adaptive Reuse of Shandukani - Hillbrow Health Precinct
The Architectural and Historical Significance of the Markhams Building
The Barnato Park Story
The Battle to Save the Colosseum Theatre
The Bibliophile of Johannesburg: Remembering Geoff Klass and His Towers of Books
The birth certificate of the Yeoville Water Tower
The Birth of the Market Theatre
The Buildings of C. H. Thrupp and Company over the Decades
The Colosseum - From a Cinema Fantasy of the Thirties to Modern apartment living in Johannesburg
The Controversial Naming of Sandton
The Dark History Behind the Oriental Plaza
The Destruction of the Bezuidenhout Valley War Memorial
The Early History of St David's Marist Inanda
The Early History of Tara Sandton
The Eastern Star Museum in Grahamstown: a case study in conservation
The easy life of Doris Mosikele
The elusive Neilson brothers - Early 20th century deep-level mining photographers
The English Language in South Africa
The Epic March of 7 000 Zulu Workers
The Face of the Rand Club Bids Farewell (for now)
The Famous Hanging Building at 78 Fox Street
The Fascinating History of Randburg
The fascinating story behind one of Sandton's oldest shops
The First Major Exhibition of Pierneef's Work in 35 Years
The Forgotten Mushroom Farm that Preceded Africa's Richest Square Mile
The Gates of Friedaura: A Portal to Parktown's Past
The Gold Rushes of the Victorian Era
The Grave Story of Rietfontein (Sizwe) Hospital
The Henry Charles Hull Story: Law, Politics and Mining in Early Johannesburg
The Heritage Community says farewell to a courageous and eccentric Johannesburg character
The Hidden History of Mount Carmel
The Historic Sites of Early Johannesburg
The History of Bryanston
The History of Daventry Court
The History of Panners Lane Sandton
The History of Soccer in Jozi
The History of the Jeppe Family
The History of Westcliff
The History of Witkoppen Clinic
The History of Witkoppen School
The Indian War Memorial: National Memory and Selective Forgetting
The Johannesburg Way of Death - The History of the Johannesburg Crematorium
The Klass Brothers - Seven Storeys of Cultural History
The Last Remaining Natural Waterfall in Johannesburg
The Legacy of Dr Arthur David Bensusan
The life of iconic artist, sculptor and designer Ernest Ullmann
The Lost World of Denver Station
The Missionary Beginnings of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
The Most Important Polish-Founded Monument in South Africa
The mystery of the goat-horned Ndebele ‘doll’ at the Wits Art Museum (WAM)
The Naming of Johannesburg
The Nedbank Historical Collective - Exploring the oldest collective financial institution in South Africa - Part 1
The Nunnery at Wits - Created in a Weekend and Still Going Strong
The only known 'Herbert Baker' house in Kensington
The Origins of Kensington
The Origins of William Nicol Drive
The passing of Malcolm Freeland marked the end of an era of old Johannesburg
The Pink Buildings Saga - Six Months On
The Ponte Saga
The Poster Age, 1968-1972 - Plastering the Campus red and blue and black
The Poswohl Synagogue - A Memorial to a Community that No Longer Exists
The Preservation of Diagonal Street
The Preservation of Pimville Soweto
The Preservation of the Provincial Building
The Pyrites Panic - When one in three citizens left Johannesburg
The Queens Road Commune - Living in a grand Parktown mansion in the 1970s
The Randlords
The Record Breakers - Johannesburg's Tallest Buildings over time
The reinterment of the remains of the first (and last) Consul General of the Ottoman Empire posted to South Africa
The Remarkable Chinese Paired Swords at Ditsong
The restoration of the Workers' Cottages in Newtown
The Richest Goldfield in the World turns 135
The Rise and Fall of Barney Barnato
The Saga of the planned major SAR & H Museum that never was
The Scottish Horse Memorial - The story behind one of Johannesburg's earliest war memorials
The search for Enoch Sontonga
The Significance of Beacons and Boundaries
The Significance of Northcliff Hill
The story behind Johannesburg's oldest War Memorial
The Story behind Outspan Road Morningside
The Story Behind the Monument to Petrus Molefe
The Story Behind the Oudstryders Monument
The story behind the South African Scottish Memorial
The Story Behind the Tower of Light
The Top Star Drive-in Saga
The town that plague built
The vanished world of Mr Man Tong and his shop at 25 Stanley Avenue, Richmond
The Wagner-Hoffa Legacy: A Tale of Two Scientific Pioneers from Richmond
The Weber Family at Driefontein Farm Sandton
The “loving gesture” has proved to be wholly destructive...
Things to see and do at Melville Koppies Nature Reserve and Joburg Heritage site
This is the story of how and why I became the author of "Die Jeppe Story" by Herbert A. Peschel
Three Historic Johannesburg Passes
Touch Joburg’s gold mining days at the Rand Club
Tour competition encourages students to explore their city
Tracey’s Folly still stands proud
Tracing the 1922 Strike
Tribute to Johannes (Johann) Jacobus Bruwer: 1954-2021
Tributes pour in for Marian Laserson
Two cemetery buildings illegally demolished
Unanswered Questions 120 Years after the Great Braamfontein Dynamite Explosion
Unique bus shelter restored and celebrated
Unpacking the complexity behind the decision to demolish the Anton Van Wouw House
Vandalised headstones in Brixton Cemetery
Visit this monumental mosaic celebrating Johannesburg
Wanooka a grand old place again (restored in 2010)
Wanton destruction of a blue plaque is to be deplored - City of Joburg to the rescue
We can reclaim our Hillbrow Tower!
We need to reclaim our Hillbrow tower
Westcliff Stairs honoured with Blue Plaques
What did Johannesburg look like in 1889?
What happened to the Van Wouw House?
What was Johannesburg like in 1931?
What’s in a name? Pushing for a more nuanced and dynamic understanding of historical names
When did Johannesburg first appear on a map?
When is Johannesburg's Birthday?
When Johannesburg became a City!
Where else can you cross paths with Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi in one day?
Where have all the mine dumps gone?
Who was the Corlett in Corlett Drive?
Who was the Douglas in Douglasdale?
Who was the Marshall in Marshallstown?
Who was the Roger behind the Jolly Roger?
Why Alexandra Survived Apartheid
Why protect a town or city's heritage?
Why was there an explosion of towers in Johannesburg in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
Why we should not waste effort maintaining this important heritage site
William English - From Trapper Boy to Toff
Windybrow in Context - From Theodore Reunert Home to Windybrow Arts Centre
Winnie's pain and torture in prison
Wits Art Museum waits, excitedly
Wits has not destroyed the old showground of Milner Park
Wonder Theatre for the Miracle City - Opening Programme Find
Young Victims Remembered