The Heritage Portal Newsletter #31/2016

A BRILLIANT AND DELIGHTFUL HOMAGE TO THE HISTORY OF THE JOHANNESBURG GAS WORKS

FEATURED

• Government Avenue Cape Town - South Africa's oldest pedestrian thoroughfare Restorica

• Berdine Luyt's 'John' - A wartime romance? Robin Lee

• A short history of Mamre's Moravian Mission Station archive

• A short history of the metrication movement in South Africa

• Architectural Guide South Africa honoured with an Award of Merit by the South African Institute for Architecture 

NOTICES

• Notice of alterations, renovations and refurbishment of Vredehuis Pretoria public participation

• Photo of the old "brise soleil" beams? assistance needed

• M Phil dissertation presentations regarding Langa Heritage

• in_Herit Festival 2016 - free entry to all Iziko museums from 19 – 25 September

• Two histories of Valkenburg: historic farmstead and psychiatric hospital talk

• Free tours of the Stellenbosch University Museum

• Yevgeny Avgustus. A Russian Fighting for the Boer Cause book launch

• Visit the 'Who built Cape Town?' exhibition this Heritage Month

• DAC and SAHRA unveil memorial to unsung heroine Magrieta Jantjies

• Simon's Town Walking History Tour

2016 IN DANGER NOMINATIONS

• BaTswana Kraal Ruins - Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve

• Buffeljachtsrivier Bridge Swellendam (Sugar Bridge)

• Caledonian Stadium Arcadia Tshwane

• Canteen Kopje Barkly West

• Central Mill Site Rimer’s Creek Barberton

• Character of City Bowl Cape Town and surrounding areas

• Coronation Park Krugersdorp

• East Fort Hout Bay

• Elandskop Petrus Steyn

• Frans Hoenig Haus Modderfontein

• George Harrison Park Langlaagte Johannesburg

• Grave of King Dingane ka Senzangakhona, Nongoma

• Horwoods Farmhouse Edenvale

• Kroonstad Town Hall

• Marshall Street Barracks Johannesburg

First 15 nominations listed alphabetically. Click here for more

FROM THE WEB

• City Hall - Tshwane’s R90m Nkandla

• Property owners protest surge of apartment buildings

• Quadrant House Durban Artefacts

• South Africa: Minister Nathi Mthethwa Launches 2016 Heritage Month Celebrations

• Rare works destroyed in UKZN library blaze

• Miners call for heritage to be spared

• 9 Campbell Street, Hout Bay SAHRIS

• Pretoria: The Jacaranda City Full of Hidden Tourist Treasures