Family history and genealogy
September 24, 2025
The Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (JHGC) has an odd item on display: Adolf Hitler’s typewriter, which he had before becoming chancellor of Germany in 1933. In the early 1930s, he used it for personal correspondence while living in Braunau, Read more…
September 6, 2025
Miriam NDWANDLE was a Zulu woman from Orlando, Johannesburg. She gave birth to quadruplets on 24 July 1948. This occurred at Bridgman Memorial Hospital in Brixton, Johannesburg. She died in December 1948. The three girls and a boy had four Read more…
August 3, 2025
Mining magnate Barney BARNATO conceived plans for a Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg in 1895. Six stands between Eloff and Commissioner Streets were purchased for £40,000. Barney died on 14 June 1897, while on a ship to England. His nephew, Solomon Read more…