The Heritage Portal Newsletter #20 2023
Bygone fortune seeker and rail restauranteur Theodor Fiebiger
Asian food snails in Zoo Lake - A living legacy of Chinese indentured labourers on the gold fields of 1904?
South Africa's forgotten bioscopes (archive)
Property Spotlight
Immaculate Victorian house in a sought-after city bowl neighbourhood
Heritage home in Westcliff with sweeping view
One of the oldest running guest houses in Cape Town
Old world charm Rondebosch
Historic Cottage Upper Wynberg
Impressive Heritage home, Upper Claremont
Two of Grahamstown’s iconic houses
Clarens home circa 1895
Historic Cottage In Heart Of Pniel, Stellenbosch
Character, charm and space in Upper Claremont
Sunningdale Manor, Upper Kenilworth
Victorian-style home, Montagu
Notices
Uncovering Memory - Book Launch)
Defence of Rorke’s Drift
The History Of Islamic Architecture
Charles van Onselen at the Rand Club
Braamfontein - Old And New - Tour
Kloofendal Gold Mine Tour
Tour of the National Library
South Africa’s list of heritage experts
Sandstone Houses of the Eastern Free State
In other news
A mysterious human species may have been the first to bury their dead
Homo naledi may have dug cave graves and carved marks into cave walls
Crumbling Yeoville — the inner-city Joburg neighbourhood that the government seemingly forgot
Bo-Kaap and District Six plan passed — residents, opposition say public participation was inadequate
Unisa celebrates 150 years of excellence in distance learning education with walk
Ceremony to mark the 120th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘Indian Opinion’
Colonial Offices, Pietermaritzburg (Artefacts)
4,000-Year-Old DNA Is the Oldest Evidence of Plague in Britain