Gauteng

Amina Chachalia

Motswedi Alexandra Art Centre, Wynberg Sandton

Motswedi Alexandra Art Centre, Wynberg Sandton

Bill Ainslie’s School extended beyond the Art Foundation. The Alexandra Arts Centre was established in 1986 in Alexandra...

Albertville, Johannesburg

Albertville, Johannesburg

Suburb of Johannesburg adjoinng Albertskroon, to the South-East of it. It was laid out in 1896 on the Farm 'Waterval' an...

Albertskroon, Suburb of Johannesburg

Albertskroon, Suburb of Johannesburg

Suburb of Johannesburg adjoining Greymont and Montgomery Park. Established about 1896 on the Farm Waterval, it was named...

Alberton, Germiston

Alberton, Germiston

Town 6 km West of Germiston and 11 km South of Johannesburg. It was laid out on the Farm, Elandsfontein in 1904. Named a...

Karl Thomas Brecker

Mariammen Temple, Pretoria

Mariammen Temple, Pretoria

Established in 1905, the temple is the oldest Hindu temple in Pretoria. The temple gets its name from Mariammen, the god...

Agricultural Publications Building, Vermeulen Street, Pretoria

Agricultural Publications Building, Vermeulen Street, Pretoria

The Building was erected in about 1914 to accommodate the premises of E.P. Grant, a general merchant. It was declared a ...

Mohamed Amien Ismail Cajee

Firoz Cachalia

Author, political activist, political detainee, banned person, secretary of the Benoni Student Movement, President of...

Petrus Arnoldus Bernhardus Beyleveld

Olga Pixie Benjamin

Bronberg Conservancy, Pretoria

Bronberg Conservancy, Pretoria

The Bronberg Conservancy is located on the South East side of Pretoria, in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is m...

Elandsfontein Farm, Pretoria

Elandsfontein Farm, Pretoria

This charming cottage on a working farm can sleep 6 members of a family in 3 separate bedrooms. It includes the followin...

Theresapark, Akasia

Theresapark, Akasia

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Flourana, Akasia -Pretoria

Flourana, Akasia -Pretoria

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SAAF Memorial and Museum

SAAF Memorial and Museum

20 February 2020

This memorial is built on Bay Hills and offers a clear view of the Air Force Base at Zwartskop. The outline of the Voort...

Hymie Barsel

30 January 2020

1956 Treason Trialist and member of the SACP

Schriener Badusa

Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal

Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal

20 December 2019

Commerical traveller, executive member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and a member of the Evaton People’s Transport Co...

Samuel Elias Adelman

19 December 2019

19 December 2019

Michael Gavin Andersson

18 December 2019

11 December 2019

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

9 December 2019

Writer, Political Activist, Architect, SACP and MK member, banned person, politcal prisoner, exile, recipient of The Or...

Marakele National Park, Waterberg Mountains

Marakele National Park, Waterberg Mountains

2 December 2019

The Marakele National Park in the heart of the Waterberg Mountains, as its Tswana name suggests, has become a 'place of ...

Farid Ahmed Adams

27 November 2019

Florence Elizabeth Majola

27 November 2019

Clone of Kitty the Steam locomotive, Rosherville Work Farm, Johannesburg

Clone of Kitty the Steam locomotive, Rosherville Work Farm, Johannesburg

This engine was manufactured in England in 1879 by the firm of Kitson and Co, of Leeds, and was exported to South Africa...

Pretoria High School for Girls, Park Street

Pretoria High School for Girls, Park Street

  Pretoria High School for Girls was started by Lord Milner in 1902 as part of his efforts to anglicise the Transv...

Mea Vota, Rissik Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria

Mea Vota, Rissik Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria

This dwelling was designed and built in about 1899 by A Westenberg and C van der Made, both engineers employed by the Ne...

Official residence, Commander of British forces in South Africa, Roberts Heights, Pretoria

Official residence, Commander of British forces in South Africa, Roberts Heights, Pretoria

This building was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and was completed in 1903 as the official residence of the Commander-in-...

Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, Main building, Ketjen Street, Pretoria

Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, Main building, Ketjen Street, Pretoria

In 1892 the first Psychiatric Institution in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, the Krankzinnige Gesticht, was established...

NZASM Goods Office, Railway Street, Pretoria

NZASM Goods Office, Railway Street, Pretoria

The building was erected by the Netherlands-South Africa Railway Co, probably in 1896, and is the largest and best remai...

Lions Bridge, Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria

Lions Bridge, Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria

The bridge was designed by the Department of Public Works of the ZAR, under the guidance of Sytze Wierda. It was built b...

Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute

Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute

The building was designed by the Department of Public Works and was completed in 1908 as the centre for the then bacteri...

Oost-Eind Primary School, 70 Meintjes Street, Trevenna, Pretoria

Oost-Eind Primary School, 70 Meintjes Street, Trevenna, Pretoria

The school was founded in 1897 and is the oldest surviving school in Pretoria. The original portion of the building was ...

Residence, 115 Charles Street, Brooklyn, Pretoria

Residence, 115 Charles Street, Brooklyn, Pretoria

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 June 1989. The Street Name has since been chang...

Koedoespoort Aerodrome, Pretoria

Koedoespoort Aerodrome, Pretoria

This site is now part of the experimental farm of the University of Pretoria. On 17 March 1920 it was the first landing ...