The Heritage Portal Newsletter #48 2024

School tour photograph from more than 100 years ago

Remember the 26th of September: The Battle of Sandfontein

Meandering along the Sea Point Promenade (Archive)

This will be our final newsletter 2024. Thank you to all our readers and contributors for another incredible year! The Portal would not be possible without you.

Notices

• Collection of South African Coinage on auction

• Can you help find this missing painting?

• Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) pledges support for relocation of Johannesburg Art Gallery’s collection

• Book tells stories of shipwrecks

• Limited edition of the De Villiers Family Tree for sale

• Ons Onthou: A book of Dordrecht memories

In other news

• Westcliff, the rich ridge with a view

• Historic cobblestones to be restored after pipe burst

• District Six Museum marks 30 years of memories

• JHF optimistic Joburg City Library will partially reopen early next year

• Amazon comfortably settled after one year in new African HQ in Cape Town