Following a very successful JHF tour to Ponte City, run in conjunction with Dlala Nje, Prof. Kathy Munro was inspired to get in touch with the last surviving architect of this iconic Joburg landmark, Rodney Grosskopff. Much to our delight, Rodney supplied Kathy with the text from a recent talk he gave on Ponte, along […]
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The team at the JHF Research Centre was very excited to receive a reconditioned Kyocera Photocopier from Smart Idea. Our trusty old machine had been working continuously for many, many years without serious incident. Until until last week, that is, when Mahmoud the technician broke the sad news that it was irreparable because it was
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A while ago, we received an enquiry from William Martinson on behalf of the Beit Trustees. He was seeking info about the house where Sir Otto Beit lived while in Johannesburg, circa the 1890s. Thanks to our expert team of ‘detectives’ at the Research Centre, we were able to track down quite a lot of
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