The Heritage Portal Newsletter #32 2022
The Blue Plaques of Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) - Part 1
Visiting the oldest extant cemetery in South Africa (archive)
Coming up
RSA 365 Book Launch - 10 September
What Simon Said - A Simon's Town Heritage Walking Tour - 11 September
Presentation of new interactive map of heritage sites in and around the Magaliesberg Biosphere - 13 September
Jan Smuts - A talk with Dr. David Katz and Peter Dickens - 16 September 2022
National Congress of the South African Society for Cultural History 2022 - 16 September
Unveiling of the Memorial to Africa's First Black Olympians - 17 September 2022
Heritage Cream Tea at Yukon - 18 September
Telling stories through food - 4 October
Visit the Karoo heartland with its world-famous fossil heritage - 6-10 October 2022
Notices
News and a few exciting updates from Muizenberg
Save the Date for Heritage Weekend 2022
Getty Conservation Guest Scholars Program - Call for applications
Final Programme - HASA Symposium 2022
Statement on the disconnection of electricity at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum
Esselen Street Clinic (Blue Plaque)
Brickwork Restoration (The Heritage Directory)
The Folie Nottingham Road (Artefacts)
Doveton House Parktown on the market
In other news
Q&A with Eric Itzkin, Head of Heritage at the City of Johannesburg
A Night at the African Penthouses
Location of 1985 Trojan Horse massacre recognised as a heritage site
What to do if you find a historical or heritage item in SA
Battle over Mandela artifacts
Residents’ appeal fails as the design of a 21-storey building in Woodstock gets approved
Top Cape Town architects reveal their favourite city buildings
Getting to the bottom of the Anglo-Boer War in SA
Commemorative tea towel? Not for Roman souvenir hunters
Pakistan’s monsoon rains threaten world heritage site of Mohenjo-daro
Historic railway site gains heritage protection