The Heritage Portal Newsletter #34 2024

Huntington Hall destroyed by fire

Collecting artefacts in Livingstone via Pandamatenga and Victoria Falls

Legal letter of demand served over Johannesburg Art Gallery

Heritage Month Events

• A train trip to town to visit the Attic Exhibition - 7 September 2024

• SAHRA Heritage Month Webinars - 10-13 September 2024

• Groote Schuur, Rhodes’ House Museum - 12 September 2024

• JC Smuts: The Formative Years - Conference 12-14 September 2024

• City walk – history, art and architecture - 13 September 2024

• Reappraising the Life and Legacy of Jan C Smuts - 14 September 2024

• All the Joburg Heritage Weekend Events - 14-15 September 2024

• Heritage Weekend Big Book Sale - 14-15 September 2024

• Tour of the Leonardo - 21 September 2024

• Mrs Clarke of Pondoland - the photographer - 21 September 2024

Notices

• Brass bell weighing 110kg stolen from SA's oldest wine-producing farm

• Restored art reinvigorates Johannesburg's inner city

• Rare book for sale - The Buildings of Pietermaritzburg

• Does anyone have a copy of this photograph?

• Call for nominations to serve as members of the board of trustees for Eastern Cape museums

In other news

• Celebrate South Africa’s heritage at these historic luxury hotels

• National Library of South Africa’s Cape Town campus temporarily closes for renovation

• The growing demand for historic properties: what you need to know

• Steps to Just Nuisance grave still in poor shape

• South African heritage tourism could uplift rural communities, with a little help: the case of Sekhukhune