The Heritage Portal Newsletter #29 2024

UNESCO proclaims new World Heritage Sites in Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal

Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites declared World Heritage Site

A Portal to Parktown's Past

Veld: The Gardens and Landscapes of Patrick Watson

Repeat of vandalism at Braamfontein Ash Walls

Notices

• Vergelegen’s gardens, history, stories and camellia flowers - 3 August 2024

• Bathurst Country Affair - 9 August 2024

• Orange Grove Encounters - 10 August 2024

• A walk along Florida Road - 13 August 2024

• Shipwreck Saturday - 17 August 2024

World Heritage Site Spotlight

• KZN bags an additional world heritage site

• University of Fort Hare added to Unesco World Heritage list

• 'Core of South Africa's liberation struggle': Unesco adds SA sites to World Heritage List

In other news

• Proposed hotel a ‘destructive development that threatens heritage of South Africa’s oldest mosque’

• History Channel explores more SA mysteries and crimes

• The men behind Nando’s – South Africa’s global peri-peri chicken empire

• Durban museum highlights history of indentured labor

• Visual history of the Olympics

• Ancient Fossil Discovery in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind Offers New Insights Into Human Origins