The Heritage Portal Newsletter #26 2024

The traveller in the map

Memories of Grand Prix Racing in Johannesburg in the 1930s

Blue Plaque Database

We will be taking a break for a couple of weeks. Next edition 18 July 2024

Events

• Night at the Museum Winter Edition - 5 July 2024

• Whaling Station & South Pier Adventure Hike - 7 July 2024

• The Ruins of Rose Road - 13 July 2024

• Bedfordview and Kensington Heritage Walk - 28 July 2024

• Kalk Bay Indigenous Walk - 29 July 2024

Notice

• A new book of Karoo adventures

• Veld: The Gardens and landscapes of Patrick Watson (New Book)

• Mapungubwe Rhino Replica (Public Art)

• House on a Hill, Northcliff (Artefacts)

• Search for Heritage Organisations

In other news

• What are South Africa’s ‘Heroes Acres’

• New signage replaces iconic mural at Glencairn Heights entrance, sparking mixed reactions

• Ordinary Whites in Apartheid South Africa

• Oldest known picture story is a 51,000-year-old Indonesian cave painting

• Everest hero George Mallory has been honoured with a blue heritage