The Heritage Portal Newsletter #16 2022
Johannesburg based artist’s 1960s photographic portfolio resurfaces
The South African War battle where the Boers lost one of their most gallant generals
South Africa’s List of Heritage Experts
Notices
Help Umgeni Steam Railway recover from the floods
Are you related to one of the victims of the Braamfontein Dynamite Explosion?
Books for Sale - History, Current Affairs & Biographies
Master's and PhD opportunities in archives and heritage
Montagu Stories is looking for an Events Organiser
Historic Roads in the Context of Cultural Routes - Call for Papers
Was this the location of a hospital or home for unwed mothers?
Research for a publication about the Bailey area
Battle of Dwarsvlei (Blue Plaque)
Genealogy Groups (The Heritage Directory)
Original Bluff Lighthouse, Durban (Artefacts)
Events
A Heritage Walking Tour through Adderley Street & the Cape Town CBD - 8 May 2022
The Rand Club and its Old But Interesting Neighbours - 14 May 2022
A guided tour of the markets of Warwick - 14 May 2022
Explore the Heritage of Belfast - 14 May 2022
West Coast Fossil Park Tour & Talk - 14 May 2022
Hidden Treasures of the Rand Club and South Africa - 14 May 2022
Legends and Graves of the Amathole - 17 May 2022
Voyage of discovery at Marianhill Monastery - New Tour
In other news
Earth’s oldest living landscape spotted in South African rock cores
More than R1 million in damage caused by flooding to the Umgeni Steam Railway track
St Lucia estuary mouth: A new report shows impact of artificial breach
A closer look at the Vrede en Lust manor house and how it came to existence
Outrage after Steve Biko statue defaced again
This World War II battery on Table Mountain range will be a 21-suite hotel
Adderley Street’s colourful flower sellers share history of iconic city market
South African history, through Rashid Lombard’s lens
Datsun is dead, again, 50 years after it captured South African hearts, then disappeared
A Joburg graffiti safari
You can buy a diamond mine in the Free State – but will have to move a 130-year-old mass grave
A Saturday night adventure in search of iconic Joburg views
The World’s Ultimate Libraries
Why Was Erotic Art So Popular in Ancient Pompeii?