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The Heritage Portal Newsletter #12 2022

The Heritage Portal
Apr 6
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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

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Jennifer Crwys-Williams
Apr 9

Such a misleading intro to the Makapan Cave article. I couldn’t find a single hint as to what the then PhD student discovered/revealed. Perhaps a follow up article could expand on what was discovered. And why no oral histories seem to have been recorded.

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