The Heritage Portal Newsletter #2 2023

A visit to the South African Airways Museum at Rand Airport

John Scott Tucker - Ineffective Official who Abolished his own Post

Photographs of Historic Nedbank Branches

Upcoming Events

• Star Viewing JHB Observatory - 28 January 2023

• An Oranjezicht Heritage Walking Tour - 29 January 2023

• Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival - 4 February 2023

• Northcliff Ridge - from top to bottom - 4 February 2023

• Mostert’s Mill Tour - 11 February 2023

• Art Deco Walk Cape Town - 11 March 2023

Notices

• New Book – Wake Up, This Is Joburg

• Hidden Wonders of the Iziko South African Museum

• Victorian Home Upper Claremont

• 1857 Home Franschoek

• Who were the Enslaved? Commemorating lives under enslavement at the Cape of Good Hope

• Town Hall Mahikeng (Artefacts)

In other news

• The architect of culture and heritage conservation

• Splendid isolation in a lovingly restored dusty Karoo village

• The history of Simon’s Town lives in these museums

• Eswatini and South Africa collaborate on the potential extension of Barberton Makhonjwa World Heritage site

• Robben Island Museum denies claims the world heritage site is falling apart

• Experts confirm Newlands Stadium is not a heritage site

• These 5 spectacular impact craters on Earth highlight our planet’s wild history

• The Falling Water of Linksfield Ridge

• What It's Like In The Dinaledi Chamber? Interview with Lee Berger