Category: Johannesburg history and heritage

TopRanking-Johannesburg-Guesthouse Snippets from Liz at Lancaster and surrounds Posted on Despite the many woes widely reported in local and international press, spring has brought a lightness to Jozi’s step and… Read more SterkfonteinCavesTour Dive back in deep time at Sterkfontein Caves in the Cradle of Humankind Posted on 3.67 million year old fossils found a mere 40 kms from Liz at Lancaster My son, grandsons and I decided… Read more RMBLatitudes2025 Shepstone Gardens home to RMB Latitudes- wonderland of whimsy Posted on RMB Latitudes held on the last weekend in May   This art fair takes place annually over the last weekend in… Read more JCAF-Structures-2025 Structures – Worldmaking at JCAF from 31 May to 15 November 2025 Posted on Structures – Worldmaking at JCAF from 31 May to 15 November 2025 JCAF has ‘done it again’. Each exhibition seems… Read more womenSoccer-Sydney-2023 Newsletter from Liz at Lancaster January 2024 Posted on I was somewhat shocked to see that the last time I sent out a newsletter was in late 2019, shortly… Read more Great-Hall-Northwards-Parktown Early summer day in Jozi, jacarandas, heritage home, the Parktown Singers – a perfect combination Posted on Jozi, the city we love to hate, dons her purple dress and delivers her swag It all came together for… Read more Suburban-Johannesburg-taxi Useful snippets from our guests for fellow travellers Posted on Jozi, the city we love to hate has woken up and embraced spring and the warmer weather with a frenetic… Read more Examining-Burchell-archive-MuseumAfrika-Johannesburg A Joburg tour with a difference – retracing the steps of a 19th Century Cape Explorer Posted on Who’s the guide? Who’s the explorer? Where’s the Museum? Lucille Davie    Lucille is a teacher, journalist and remarkable researcher… Read more stamps Siemon Allen at JCAF 2023 Posted on Siemon Allen’s Stamps V 2010 All four of the Otherscapes installations at JCAF , showing in 2023, are intriguing and… Read more Covid19_tapestry_Keiskamma_detail Stitches that heal body and soul: the Keiskamma Tapestry exhibition at Constitution Hill 2022 Posted on Umaf’ evuka, nje ngenyanga /Dying and Rising as the Moon Does  This is the title of the exhibition of tapestries… Read more
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