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British 'heroes' commemorated in Kensington street names
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
1950 Commemorative Booklet reveals wonderful photographs of Jan Smuts
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 Bloody Riot in Soweto in 1957
A Brief History of Parkview
A Brief History of Windybrow
A Century of Pretoria's Holy Redeemer Catholic Church
A Deeper Look at Johannesburg's New Street Names
A delightful 1987 calendar celebrating the centenary of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
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 hidden gem in the heart of Fourways
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 Pretorian: Photographer Dotman Pretorius (1917-1999)
A remarkable set of 33 postcards of Johannesburg circa 1904-08
A remarkable story of how a man feels about his home
A secret heritage home on the Kensington ridge
A Short History of Craighall
A Short History of Cullinan School
A Short History of East Fort Pretoria
A short history of the Irene Concentration Camp Cemetery
A Short History of the Jewish Community in Joburg
A Short History of the Mulberry Tree
A Short History of the Pepper Tree
A short history of the tram lines serving Pretoria and the Union Buildings via Church Square
A stroll through the Eastern Joburg suburbs of Orchards, Maryvale, Sydenham and Orange Grove
A stroll through the Heidelberg Kloof cemetery
A swastika, Herbert Baker and the Pretoria Station
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!
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
Another brick in the wall – forgotten Kirkness bricks and fireplaces at the UNISA Sunnyside campus
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
Battles in the Magaliesberg
Before and After - The Tragedy of the Indian High Commission (Arkleton) Perimeter Wall
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
Brief History of St Ursula’s School
Brixton's First Blue Plaque
Building Africa's Tallest Building - The Leonardo, Sandton
Burgers Park - A Victorian Heritage (As portrayed in picture postcards from more than a century ago)
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 Mandela through the lens of graphic heritage
Celebrating the remarkable life of Herbert Prins
Census 1896 - The Making of Johannesburg
Chappies, a Joburg creation
Charles Rhangani Furumele - meeting ends for the children
Checklist for Heritage Warriors
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
Clarendon Circle - Then and Now
Cleaning the Joburg Cenotaph - Before, During and After
Clive Chipkin pays tribute to Robin Fee
Crossing the Vaal (at Vereeniging)
Cullinan - The War Years
Cullinan Between the Wars
Cullinan Mine - Open Pit and Haulage
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
Destroyed ERPM Mining Village - Some practical thoughts
Disappeared June 16 victim Mbuyisa Makhubu to be honoured
Documents saved from a rubbish dump reveal snippets of the life of Gerardus Bodde
Dolobran mansion sits smugly among Baker's Joburg icons
Dorkay House hangs on
Early Heidelberg through the eyes of a deltiologist
Early Settlers and Prospectors in Sandton
Embellishing an icon - Artists and the Union Buildings
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
First Heritage Plaques Unveiled in Modderfontein
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
Forgotten fountain returns to the limelight
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
From the Alps to the Highveld
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
German connections and the overall significance of the Yeoville Water Tower
Gone but not Forgotten - Johannesburg's oldest Mosque
Gone but not forgotten - The landmark Barlow Fountain
Goodbye Johannesburg, Hello..... (A poem by Mike Alfred)
Grandma's Notes - Life at the beginning of the 20th Century
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
Hastings Ndlovu's day too
Health Care workers who died from Spanish Flu
Hector Pieterson gets his memorial
Hector's sister tells the story still
Herbert Baker’s Stonehouse captures his spirit
Heritage Battles in Tshwane 2016
Heritage body expresses concern about fire risk facing the city’s heritage; calls for commission of inquiry
Heritage Excursions that Inspire
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
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
Hollard saves Arcadia (in 2004) and gets the best view around
Homage to Zoo Lake, Johannesburg
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
If only statues could speak: the four Boer statues Kitchener ‘stole’
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
Indian Trading, Art Deco Buildings and Urban Modernity: Jubilee House in Krugersdorp
Inner City Snapshot - November 2016
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
Jan Christian Smuts 1870 - 1950
JC Munro - Pretoria's longest serving photographer during the turn of the 20th century
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 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 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'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 ice-cream vendors choose a free-wheeling life
Johannesburg’s mayors
Joseph Kirkman's Missing Manuscript - Can the mystery now be put to rest?
Joubert Park Lives - A 2016 Visit
Journal of a visit to the Gold Fields in 1889
Judge Dikgang Moseneke at Kilnerton Institution
June 16, 1976 - 'This is our day'
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!
Keeping Gandhi out of the Heidelberg Gaol
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
Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve - One of Joburg's best kept secrets
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 at the restoration of the Credo Mutwa Cultural Village
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
Marc Latilla is a Joburg enthusiast – Then and Now
Markhams Building and the Cape Town Connection
Markhams' battle for survival
Mayibuye planned a massive onslaught
Melanie Yap - Chinese voice
Melville Koppies bags heritage award
Memorial to President John F Kennedy in Sandton
Memories of Grand Prix Racing in Johannesburg in the 1930s
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
Millbank - The Closest Historic Mill to Johannesburg
Modderfontein's Grand Mansion
Model of 'U-96' donated to the Ditsong National Museum of Military History
Modern Day Mystery - What has happened to the owner of the Kensington Castle?
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
Neil Fraser – passionate city man
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 photographs of the massive Braamfontein Coal Stage
Old stamp mills finally go home
Old, New and Newest in Braamfontein
On tour with judge Albie Sachs
One City, Six Spaces in 48 Hours (Tshwane / Pretoria)
One day back in '63 at Liliesleaf
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
Only this cemetery remains as a stark reminder of an uprooted 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
Our Forgotten Heritage – The Beleaguered Blockhouses
Pageview hero stood his ground for 20 years
Panning for Gold in Sandton
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
Perfect nuisance and as mad as a hatter - Rudolf Gottfried Steger, Pretoria based photographer from 1898-1919
Phillip Tobias, the mensch
Photographers active in Pretoria - First 60 years (1855-1915)
Photographs of Johannesburg circa 1892
Photographs of Johannesburg in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Photos of Pageview in 1973
Plague, Gandhi and the Parliamentary Clerk's Daughter
Pretoria on Parade - A Mystery Photo Album Emerges
Pretoria Railway Station depicted on early Picture Postcards
Pritchard Street thrives once again!
Professor Revil John Mason 1929-2020
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'
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
Registrar in Trouble - Saving the life of an anti-apartheid activist
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 First Trans-Africa Flight
Remembering the launch of the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation
Requiem to a Johannesburg landmark - The Grand Station Hotel lost to fire
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
Rider Haggard - Lost in Pretoria?
Righting the wrong that was done to Esther and Bill Eaton
Ronel Bischoff - woman in charge
Rosendal - A townhouse complex in the Highveld vernacular
Salisbury House shines again (in 2005)
Sammy Marks Museum - The Survival of a Grand Century Old Estate
Sandton almost had a beach
Sandton and Randburg 1939-1969 - Experiments in Local Government
Sandton has a new tallest building!
Sandton has History!
Sandton Shimmers at Night
Sandton's Forgotten Monument
Sandton's Forgotten Race Track
Sappersrus and the War Memorial to the Sappers
Saving the grave of Bryanston's mystery man
Scott Brebnor House Midrand - A remarkable reunion between architect and client
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
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'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
Soweto Theatre speaks in many languages
Spatial Development Plan must address heritage preservation in Johannesburg
Spectacular old photographs of Joburg from above
Sport and People of Cullinan
Springs - Art Deco's Love Child
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
Stories from a Diamond Mine - The Early Days
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
Tait House Benoni Inspires
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 Battle to Save the Colosseum Theatre
The Bird Calendar 1940-2020 - A short history, including a question and a real-life mystery
The birth certificate of the Yeoville Water Tower
The Birth of the Market Theatre
The Birth of the Union Buildings
The Buildings of C. H. Thrupp and Company over the Decades
The charter of ‘singing tomorrows’
The Colosseum - From a Cinema Fantasy of the Thirties to Modern apartment living in Johannesburg
The Controversial Naming of Sandton
The Cullinan Diamond and other remarkable stones from the Premier / Cullinan Mine
The dark history behind the Oriental Plaza
The Day Krugersdorp Received a Magnificent Tower Clock
The Death of James Christie Grant
The Destruction of the Bezuidenhout Valley War Memorial
The Dube Story
The Early History of Boksburg
The Early History of Irene Farm
The Early History of St David's Marist Inanda
The Early History of Tara Sandton
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 Fall of Pretoria, June 1900
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 first re-discovery of gold in the Transvaal
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 Great Synagogue in Hillbrow
The Heritage Community says farewell to a courageous and eccentric Johannesburg character
The Hidden History of Mount Carmel
The Hill Sign at Little Falls turns 100
The History behind the Heidelberg Klipkerk
The History of Bryanston
The History of Daventry Court
The History of Jacaranda Trees in Pretoria
The History of Panners Lane Sandton
The History of Sizwe (formerly Rietfontein) Hospital
The History of Soccer in Jozi
The History of Westcliff
The History of Witkoppen Clinic
The History of Witkoppen School
The home of jailed activist Seth Mazibuko
The Hostels and Compounds of Cullinan
The House that Dynamite Built
The Indian War Memorial: National Memory and Selective Forgetting
The Johannesburg Way of Death - The History of the Johannesburg Crematorium
The Katlehong Bantu are grumbling - let them have more playgrounds
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 Graves of the Jameson Raiders
The Lost World of Denver Station
The Lovely Lonehill Koppie
The man who discovered the Sterkfontein Caves
The material culture of neglect in a set of heritage houses, Sunnyside, Pretoria
The McHardy Family of Cullinan
The Missionary Beginnings of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
The mosaic that is Jeppestown 
The mystery of the goat-horned Ndebele ‘doll’ at the Wits Art Museum (WAM)
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 Ponte Saga
The Poster Age, 1968-1972 - Plastering the Campus red and blue and black
The Preservation of Diagonal Street
The Preservation of Pimville Soweto
The Pretoria Station Swastika Debate
The Pyrites Panic - When one in three citizens left Johannesburg
The Queens Road Commune - Living in a grand Parktown mansion in the 1970s
The Rebirth of the Germiston Carnegie Library
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 Saga of the planned major SAR & H Museum that never was
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 1922 Rand Revolt Centenary Stone
The story behind the South African Scottish Memorial
The Sunnyside Spook House
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 Village and Buildings of Cullinan
The Wagner-Hoffa Legacy: A Tale of Two Scientific Pioneers from Richmond
The Weber Family at Driefontein Farm Sandton
Things to see and do at Melville Koppies Nature Reserve and Joburg Heritage site
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
Tram Spotting - Pretoria Tram Services as depicted on early Picture Postcards (1900s to 1920s)
Tribute to Johannes (Johann) Jacobus Bruwer: 1954-2021
Tributes pour in for Marian Laserson
Two cemetery buildings illegally demolished
Two gum trees, firemen and horse races
Unanswered Questions 120 Years after the Great Braamfontein Dynamite Explosion
Union Buildings Gardens Vandalised and Neglected
Unique bus shelter restored and celebrated
Vandalised headstones in Brixton Cemetery
Visit this monumental mosaic celebrating Johannesburg
Visiting one of the oldest pubs in Gauteng
Visiting the Historic Palmietkuil South War Cemetery
Visiting the Historic Primrose Cemetery (Germiston)
Visiting the Historic Rynsoord Benoni Cemetery
Visual Reflection on Pretoria’s early places of Worship - 1857 to the end of the 1920s
Vogelstruisbult Tragedy - An abandoned Springs Gold Mine
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
Was there really a Mushroom Farm in Sandton Central?
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 remains of the Jameson Raid
What was Boksburg like in 1903?
What was Johannesburg like in 1931?
What's printed on your frog? Treasured heritage from the brickfields of John Johnston Kirkness
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 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
Wilge River - Supplying water to the Premier Mine
William English - From Trapper Boy to Toff
William Roe (1827-1916) - Long serving Graaff-Reinet based photographer
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
Zonderwater - Almost certainly the Largest Allied POW Camp in the World