The event that precipitated the KBHA’s formation was the opening of the Kalk Bay Community Centre in 1994. This former 1906 sewage pump station, then wartime SAWAS Recreational Centre, and finally Kalk Bay Library, had been extensively altered and adapted to new uses through a City Council – Private Partnership. It provided meeting spaces, storage
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Johannesburg from the Riverbanks: Navigating the Jukskei is an ambitious and timely contribution to Johannesburg studies. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by twenty-six contributors, the volume emerged largely from the 2023 Riparian Urbanism project and seeks to reposition the Jukskei River
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In 1936, the year in which Johannesburg celebrated its Golden Jubilee, the Jubilee Memorial Committee purchased a 42 acre site east of Highlands North to establish a living memorial for the city’s ageing Rand Pioneers and names it Randjeslaagte. Architects Kallenbach, Kennedy and Furner adopted a garden suburb plan for the site.