The Heritage Portal Newsletter #10 2022
The Story Behind the 1922 Rand Revolt Centenary Stone
The Natal Volunteer Indian Ambulance Services in the Boer War - Legend and Reality
Take a drive and see the sites associated with the 1922 Rand Revolt
Notices
Calling all storytelling organisations in and around Cape Town
Nominating and declaring a heritage site? These firms can help
Arts on Main (Blue Plaque)
Big Book Sale Johannesburg
One of South Africa’s biggest funeral processions (Archive)
List your blue plaque in the national database
Gros Album achieves record price
Iziko South African Museum (Artefacts)
In other news
Invaluable artworks and artefacts at risk in the Johannesburg museums
Solving a 1922 miners’ strike mystery hinges on a ‘bulldog’ with a metal detector on Joburg’s Grassy Knoll
Old maternity hospital awarded blue-plaque status
Parliament's Louis Botha statue targeted with spray paint and an angle grinder
Cruising The Four Rands of Jozi
Renowned business leader Michael Spicer, who played an instrumental role in SA transition to democracy, dies
Khoisan history is interesting but feels rather too academic in new book First People
Building a bigger home for the British Library collection
Timbuktu manuscripts: Mali's ancient documents captured online
Clashes of heritage, sustainability and survival in Zanzibar
Ukraine: Heritage buildings, if destroyed, can be rebuilt but never replaced
World Heritage Site at Lake Malawi threatened by planned water purification plant