The Heritage Portal Newsletter #19 2025

The Historic Sites of Early Johannesburg

Add a plaque to South Africa’s Blue Plaque Database

Knysna Gold (Archive)

Events

• Sea Point Heritage Walking Tour - 8 June 2025

• A Tale of Two Port Cities - 10 June 2025

• Melville Koppies Heritage Hike - 14 June 2025

• Geology of the Vredefort Dome - 14 June 2025

• From Planetarium to Digital Dome - 28 June 2025

Notices

• Heritage Objects Unit (HO) Manager (Job opportunity)

• Official Opening of The Block House Museum

• Great Synagogue, Cape Town (Artefacts)

• Digitisation (The Heritage Directory)

• 11th Mpumalanga Oral History Conference 2025 - Call for Papers

In other news

• In search of Nongqawuse: unraveling the tragic legacy of a young Xhosa prophetess

• Cape Town's iconic clock tower gets a glow-up

• Many of Dead Sea scrolls may be older than thought, experts say

• Tourist damages two of China’s terracotta warriors after jumping fence

• Archaeology without digging in the “Cradle of Humankind”