The Heritage Portal Newsletter #26 2022

The reinterment of the remains of the first (and last) Consul General of the Ottoman Empire posted to South Africa

The Weeping Cross from Delville Wood

Exploring the oldest collective financial institution in South Africa

Notices

• Join South Africa’s list of heritage experts

• MSU Professor Creates Body of Work to be Exhibited Throughout South Africa

• Call for nominations - 2022 Peter Louis Award for conservation of the built environment in KZN

• Book Launch: In One Era and Out of the Other by Glenn Babb

• Three Heritage Books on KwaZulu-Natal

• Geoheritage and Battlefield tours of the Magaliesberg

• Does anyone have more information about this Afrikaans poem?

• Can anyone provide more information about this wagon?

• Houses of Parliament Artefacts

Events

• Military History Tour of Durban - 30 July 2022

• The Pines and Villa Arcadia Tour - 31 July 2022

• Tea and Cake at Lindfield House - 6 August 2022

• Bosman, Birth Certificates and other Fictions by Tim Sandham - 9 August 2022

• The Great Ladies of Northwards Tour - 9 August 2022

• Finding Billy Grant's Buildings - 10 August 2022

• UCT Heritage Resources Management Course 2022

• Guidelines for Improved Land Administration - UCT Course 2022

In other news

• Amazon fed up — could pull plug on new Cape Town headquarters

• A venture into the hidden Spekboom Valley with Mpumalanga Heritage experiencing

• Hidden Joburg: The Lions Shul

• Sibanye-Stillwater takes hats off for SA Heritage sites

• Rhodes University hall residences renamed after Solomon Mahlangu and Hugh Masekela

• How Britain’s ‘ugliest building’ was gentrified

• Plans to demolish iconic Oxford Street store

• Ancient Roman Heritage Colosseum Gets A Price Tag Of $79 Billion

• Age-old secrets revealed from the world's first metropolises