On the morning of 16 June 1976, I was the casualty officer at Baragwanath Hospital who received the first victims of what would become known as the Soweto Uprising.For the 30th anniversary of the uprising, Ali Hlongwane, then curator of the Hector Pieterson Museum, commissioned me to provide an account of my experience, to be published in an anthology
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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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The house was designed in 1922 by Harold Porter for Dr Edward Thomas Mellor who, in 1917, was a geologist with the Transvaal and Witwatersrand Geological Surveys. He published the definitive geological map of the Witwatersrand and became consulting geologist to the Rand Mines Group. Later owners include William Mc Ewan, a judge of the High Court and Joylon Nuttall of The Star. The house was extensively altered in 1999 by architect J. F.