In the article below, Tertius De Wet, Jef L. Teugels, and Pieta Van Deventer trace seven church bells back to the C. Voss & Sohn foundry in Stettin, now Szczecin in Poland. All seven still hang in Lutheran and Dutch Reformed churches in South Africa's Eden district. Most arrived through the Berliner Missionsgesellschaft, the German missionary
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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 1980 Eduard Lippert established a forest, known as the Sachsenwald, on part of the farm Braamfontein. Part of this was given to the people of Johannesburg in 1904 for the specific use as a public park and named Herman Eckstein Park after a leading mining pioneer. In 1906 the City Council built a lake on this section, which was marshland.