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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This building began in 1911 as a bonded liquor warehouse for William McBain. Later the front offices were used by the construction company of D.F. Corlett, master-builder and Mayor of Johannesburg from 1931-'32. Arts on Main was redeveloped by Propertuity in 2009 as a pioneering arts centre, combining five consolidated warehouses, and designed by Architects Daffonchio and Associates. It was from here that Maboneng spread.