The Heritage Portal Newsletter #22 2024

Farewell to a brilliant architect who designed masterpieces in South Africa and Greece

Simonstown: A Victorian Photo Album dissected 160 years later

Iconic heritage home survives in Yeoville (Archive)

Events

• Muizenberg Indigenous Walk - 8 June 2024

• Inside The Masonic Lodge - 8 June 2024

• Benefit Concert At Northwards - 8 June 2024

• Geneaology: researching South African family history: Dr Eleanor Damon - 15 June 2024

• The Restoration of the Neo-Classical Facade of the Robert Sobukwe Great Hall - 19 June 2024

Notices

• Michael Sutton is the reason that I chose to study Architecture

• Does anyone know the background of this Coca Cola sign?

• Mosaic pillars Joe Slovo Drive (Public Art)

• Vergenoeg, Muizenberg (Artefacts)

• Historical Writing (The Heritage Directory)

• Stables (Blue Plaques)

In other news

• Urgent bid launched to save legendary Lovedale Press from permanent closure

• South Africa: new Drakensberg nature reserve will protect ancient rock art, wildlife, livelihoods, grasslands and water

• Jozi My Jozi spearheads critical change and rise of Johannesburg urban rehabilitation

• Government plan to drop EIAs for Kruger National Park developments puts safeguards ‘at risk’

• City of Joburg silent after inquiry finds it responsible for Usindiso fire