The Heritage Portal Newsletter #22 2022

Probably the earliest record of Ndebele wall decoration I have discovered to date

Delville Wood - The costliest action the South African Brigade fought on the Western Front

The Mystery of the Missing Major General

Notices

• Randlords & their mansions - 17 June 2022

• Diverse and Dynamic - exploring the delights of Brixton - 18 June 2022

• One-man play by Peter Terry about Delville Wood - 18 June 2022

• Point Precinct Walk - 19 June 2022

• Umgeni Steam Railway Open Day & Fundraiser - 26 June 2022

• Notice of Heritage Impact Assessment - Proposed Woodmead Water Upgrade Project

• Call for applications for Robben Island Museum Bursaries 2022

• Broadcast House (Blue Plaque)

• Are you on the list of Heritage Experts in South Africa?

Youth Day Archive

• June 16, 1976 - 'This is our day'

• Life in exile for the teenagers who survived June 16th

• Hector Pieterson gets his memorial

• Disappeared June 16 victim Mbuyisa Makhubu to be honoured

• First person killed during the Soweto uprising

• Hector's sister tells the story still

In other news

• Andrew Lindsay, Joburg’s Mosaic Master

• Prince Albert — The creative nerve centre of the Karoo

• Nokutela Mdima-Dube recognised a century later

• Former Bok captain wants to stop sale of Newlands, takes steps to declare it a 'heritage site'

• South Africa’s epochal 1976 uprisings shouldn’t be reduced to a symbolic ritual

• 65,000 year-old ‘Swiss Army knife’ proves ancient humans shared knowledge, research says

• Researchers identify the origins of the Black Death

• Wreck of Long-Lost Royal Battleship Discovered Off English Coast

• 399-Year-Old Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio Could Fetch $2.5 Million at Auction