The Heritage Portal Newsletter #43 2021
Slave Sales and Cape Town's Slave Tree Memorial
Registrar in Trouble - Saving the life of an anti-apartheid activist
Blue Plaques celebrate Hermann Kallenbach, renowned architect and friend of Gandhi
Portrait of a Springbok - Lest we forget
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Workshop to support the revitalisation of the N!uu language
A Reflection on the life and work of Gertruida Brinkman, the first woman to graduate as an Architect in South Africa
Old Park Station - A heritage site of exceptional significance (archive)
Wilson Library Hunterstoun, Hogsback (Artefacts)
Heritage Western Cape statement on proposed demolition of building at 6 Kloof Street, Sea Point
Rand Club Summer Book Faire
Report back from the Durban Art Deco Society AGM
Vacancies at Iziko
Senior Lecturer Archaeology / Heritage Studies
In other news
It’s official: Limpopo boasts Africa’s tallest tree and the world’s tallest planted tree
River Club: Utopian fantasies of a high-tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communities
From the Booker to the Nobel: why 2021 is a great year for African writing
Linksfield Ridge, Johannesburg’s natural gem, to take spotlight
Uproar over Sea Point historical building demolition
Lutheran Church awarded a blue plaque
Kitchen Essentials From Centuries Past
A Lazy Blog About Cape Agulhas, the Southern Tip of Africa
New app detects illegal ploughing of endangered renosterveld
Priceless Roman mosaic spent 50 years as a coffee table in New York apartment
Old becomes hip: Asia’s heritage buildings get multimillion dollar makeovers
FW de Klerk - The Potchefstroom Connection
A Brief Scientific History of Glass