The Heritage Portal Newsletter #31 2021
Searching for the Zulu Mass Graves at Kambula
East London's Father of Photography
Brian McKechnie: heritage, passion and cars
Archival Forgery and the Making of 'Zulu Dawn'
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Notices
Liliesleaf closes indefinitely
Some interesting facts about two famous South African bakers
History of Jeppestown 4 September 2021
Goodbye Johannesburg, Hello..... A poem by Mike Alfred
Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins - The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid - Online Book Launch
Review of Charles van Onselen's The Night Trains
Tea in Troyeville 24 September 2021
Cape Town Waterfront History Tour 4 September 2021
Update your details in South Africa's Heritage Directory
Three Historic Johannesburg Passes Archive
Town Hall Benoni Artefacts
In other news
Closure of SA’s liberation monument Liliesleaf described as an embarrassment
The first-ever dictionary of South Africa’s Kaaps language has launched – why it matters
Heritage steam engines trade rail for road to get to new home
Peter Rich has cemented the value of African architecture in SA and abroad
1911 Goedehoop Koshuis receives blue heritage plaque
London skyscraper plans threaten UK’s oldest synagogue
Small seashells tell a big story of slavery and transoceanic trade 500 years ago
RW Wilcocks falls, Krotoa rises at Maties
Thousands of Rare Artifacts Discovered Beneath Tudor Manor’s Attic Floorboards
Hurricane Ida Destroys New Orleans Jazz Landmark
Thyspunt nuke plant plan: For and against bang heads
The curse of Mies van der Rohe: Berlin’s six-year, £120m fight to fix his dysfunctional, puddle-strewn gallery
Porcelain seized by Nazis goes up for auction in New York
Zanzibar’s Domino Tower could be Africa’s second tallest and rise on a manmade island
The Karoo – Cradle of the Mammals
Project documents story of Observatory - a place of activism, culture and change
In the steps of history's forgotten female explorers