The Heritage Portal Newsletter #15 2022

Take a Blue Plaque Tour of the Grand Mansions of Johannesburg

Dr Willem Henri Jacobus Punt - South African Heritage Pioneer

City of Johannesburg starts consultations to move artworks from the Johannesburg Art Gallery

Notices

• Orders, Decorations and Medals - A South African Perspective - 28 April 2022

• Headrests of Southern Africa, the Architecture of Sleep - Book Launch 30 April 2022

• Explore the Heritage of Belfast - 14 May 2022

• New Book - Milner: Last of the Empire Builders

• Hidden Treasures of the Rand Club and South Africa - 14 May 2022

• Springs - Art Deco's Love Child (Archive)

• New Book - Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi

• Bedford Court (Plaque)

• De Rust Heritage Trust (The Heritage Directory)

• The Earthy Paradise - A Heritage Walking Tour through the Company's Gardens

• Appeal Court Bloemfontein (Artefacts)

In other news

• Plans to turnaround Liliesleaf

• Desmond Tutu’s home, Jo’burg’s heritage: Revitalising St Mary’s Cathedral

• Featherbed Nature Reserve, Knysna: the origins story

• Drive for net zero fuels UK boom in retrofitting buildings for new use

• Delays placing heritage at risk, metal detectorist warns

• Formal opening of the special Jagger Library memorial exhibition Of Smoke and Ash

• Instagram Vs. Reality: What South Africa Is Really Like

• The shipwrecks rewriting ancient history

• 126 Melbourne buildings granted heritage protection

• Liverpool at the heart of digital world heritage

• Self-taught physicist behind telecommunications theory honoured with blue plaque