The Heritage Portal Newsletter #12 2022

The Silences around the Makapan Cave Siege of 1854

Check out the growing Blue Plaques database

The Early Vision for the Johannesburg Art Gallery

Notices

• Save the Date for the 2022 HASA Symposium

• Calling all archaeological faunal specialists - Job opportunity

• Notice of a Heritage Impact Assessment - Proposed Demolition of the Buffalo River Bridge

• Talk on Sir Herbert Baker and his home in Owletts in Kent

• Rand Club Antiques, Book Faire & Artisanal Market

• Visit La Motte before it closes for major building work

• Bantu World - The first national publication aimed solely at a black readership (Blue Plaque)

• Archaeological Excavation (The Heritage Directory)

• Eiffel Tower Replica Bloemfontein (Artefacts)

• Social History Tour of The Castle of Good Hope

In other news

• City of Johannesburg ‘exploring all possible avenues’ to rescue Joburg Art Gallery

• Once vibrant Joburg Art Gallery is crumbling into ruin

• Former JAG Director says gallery should be moved

• Battle for the preservation of historic building in Sea Point

• Remember the Stables market in Durban? Look at it now

• Developer of Amazon offices vows to continue legal fight

• Parliament building is still a restoration in progress three months after devastating fire

• South African History Archive relaunched at Wits

• Cape Town public pool reopens after R28m renovation

• Kalk Bay residents move to block businessman from ‘privatising historic public beach area’

• Minerals Council SA follows its members’ exodus from the Joburg CBD

• We trash our modernist heritage on a whim: why is Britain so in thrall to the wrecking ball?

• University Of York: New Research Centre To Reassess Cultural Heritage Around The World

• Tokyo's iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower to be demolished