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RADIO INTERVIEW - RISSIK STREET POST OFFICE - TUESDAY, 22nd FEBRUARY
Dear Member,
Don’t miss Heritage Today on Tuesday, 22 February, when Flo Bird has 3 guests from the Johannesburg Property Company who will explain just what is happening to the Rissik Street Post Office and exactly when the restoration work will start. Brian Mahlangu (PR and Media Officer), Kululwe Muthetwa (Project Manager: Capital Projects) and Fanuel Motsepe (Heritage Architect) are intimately involved
The Johannesburg Property Company is undertaking this work with special pride in this City’s heritage and a determination to prove that the past neglect was a factor of budgetary constraint and not because they are not aware of its great cultural importance in the heart of the City directly across the road from the Gauteng Legislature, which is also a fully declared Heritage Site.
Flo Bird will be putting the questions which have been on the minds of all conservationists “Are you going to restore the Rissik Street Post Office? “ and “When will the work begin.”
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Heritage Today - 17 January 2012 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Phil and Pam Beck of the Boksburg and East Rand Historical Association
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Heritage Today - 13 December 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Len Raymond
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Heritage Today - 6 December 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Mike Moriarty
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Heritage Today - 29 November 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Ufrieda Ho
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Heritage Today - 22 November 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Didier Bayeye
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Heritage Today - 15 November 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Gerald Olitzki
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Heritage Today - 8 November 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Topic: Old Fresh Produce Market Potato Sheds in Newtown
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Heritage Today - 1 November 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Tracey Andrew
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Heritage Today - 25 October 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Gerald Garner
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Heritage Today - 18 October 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Mlungisi Shongwe and Brian Mahlangu
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Heritage Today - 11 October 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Mira Fassler Kamstra
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Heritage Today - 4 October 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Brian McKechnie
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Heritage Today - 27 September 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Brian McKechnie
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Transvaal Scottish Open Day - Saturday 24th September 2011
Kilts swinging, pipes skirling… and a family fun day. Our local Citizen Force regiment, the Transvaal Scottish, is holding an Open Day. The Jocks, as they’re called, are active in peacekeeping operations in Congo and Sudan, but this is strictly fun in the sun. The historic Cullinan house is open, and there’ll be stalls in the grounds. See you from 10 o’clock on — Saturday 24th September. At ‘The View’, in Ridge Road, Parktown. Just up from the Sunnyside Park Hotel, off Houghton Drive. Can’t miss it: it’s behind the statue of the Jock standing proud above St Andrew’s Road. Airtime is sponsored by Radio Today – the radio station that cares! Radio Today! Radio That Delivers!
Heritage Today - 20 September 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Herbert Prins
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Heritage Today - 13 September 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Deanna Kirby & Pierre Roestorf
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Heritage Today - 6 September 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: John Des Fountain
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Heritage Today - 30 August 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Georgie Currie
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Heritage Today - 23 August 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Manny Pita (Mike’s Kitchen in Parktown)
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Heritage Today - 16 August 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: David Forrest
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Heritage Today - 9 August 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Rocco Bosman
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Heritage Today - 2 August 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Reverend David
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Heritage Today - 26 July 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Host: Den Adams - "Review - July 2011
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Heritage Today - 19 July 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Jan Groenewald - "Owner of Foxwood House in Houghton Johannesburg"
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Heritage Today - 5 July 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Julia Hornberger - "Johannesburg - Reading the City through its street lights”
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Heritage Today - 28 June 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Brigid Ward - "Flanders Fields
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Heritage Today - 21 June 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Esme Wiesmeyer
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Heritage Today - 14 June 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Denis Creighton
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Heritage Today - 7 June 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: James Ball
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Heritage Today - 31 May 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Eric Ackroyd
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Heritage Today - 24 May 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Werner Kirchhoff
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Heritage Today - 17 May 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Werner Kirchhoff
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Heritage Today - 10 May 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Eric Itzkin - City of Johannesburg Director of Immovable Heritage
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Heritage Today - 3 May 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Keith Martin, the Member of the Modderfontein Conservation Society
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Heritage Today - 26 April 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Roydon Peden - "Royal Expert"
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Heritage Today - 19 April 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Nick Human of Saxanwold and Parkwood Residents Association
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Heritage Today - 12 April 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Elaine Thorne
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Heritage Today - 5 April 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Craig Schweitzer
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Heritage Today - 29 March 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guests : Chris and Lorna Rayner
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Heritage Today - 22 March 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Alex Parker (Architectural Adviser). Talking about the Modern Movement Buildings in Johannesburg
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Heritage Today - 15 March 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Jo-Anne Duggan (Head of Heritage Agency in Cape Town)
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Heritage Today - 8 March 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Malcolm Freeland and Huten Tomaselil
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Heritage Today - 1 March 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
George Harrison Park: Central Rand Gold
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Heritage Today - 22 February 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Brian Mahlangu (PR and Media Officer) and Kululwa Muthwa (Project Manager: Capital Projects) from the Johannesburg Property Company
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Heritage Today - 15 February 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Lilith Wynne
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Heritage Today - 08 February 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Alexander Gifford (Artistic Director), Makhomo Tsepa and Peggy Munro
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Heritage Today - 01 February 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: James Ball
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Heritage Today - 25 January 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Henry Paine
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Heritage Today - 11 January 2011 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Scott Drimie
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Heritage Today - 7 December 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Karen Wygers
Den Adams interviewed Karen Wygers, owner of Bishopskop.
In 1904 architects Baker Masey and Sloper designed this house, tiny chapel and its gardens for Archdeacon Furse. Using the koppie stone quarried on site, Sloper patiently taught the masons to shape the very hard rock. Elevated to Anglican Bishop of Pretoria Furse continued to champion the mineworkers. He changed the church’s system of stipends by putting all Anglican priests onto the same graded payroll, operating independently of the wealth or otherwise of each parish. Host of Heritage Today was Den Adams and is brought to you on Radio Today each Tuesday from 10h45 to 11h00 by The Parktown & Westcliff Heritage Trust.
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Heritage Today - 25 November 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Linda Chernis
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Heritage Today - 16 November 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Skye Korck
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Heritage Today - 9 November 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: William Gaul - Parktown Resident
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Heritage Today - 2 November 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Dr Neil Viljoen
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Heritage Today - 26 October 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Alida van Deventer - Westcliff Resident
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Heritage Today - 19 October 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Sue Krige -Historian and Heritage
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Heritage Today - 12 October 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Dr Johan van der Watt
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Heritage Today - 5 October 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Val Hammerton
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Heritage Today - 28 September 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Alex Parker
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Heritage Today - (Special Heritage Day) 24 September 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guests: Eric Itzkin, Brian McKechnie & Ya'el Horowitz: Topic: “Jo’burg Heritage Doomed or Cherished?”
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Heritage Today - 21 September 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: James Ball
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Heritage Today - 14 September 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Keith Martin
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Heritage Today - 7 September 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Franky Toussaint
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Heritage Today - 31 August 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
Guest: Raymond Cardoso
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Heritage Today - 24 August 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
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Heritage Today - 10 August 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
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Heritage Today - 27 July 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
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Heritage Today - 18 May 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
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Heritage Today - 23 March 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
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Flo Bird rejoices in her interview with Eric Itzkin of the City of Johannesburg regarding the removal and re-housing of the squatters from Chancellor House, the law offices of Mandela and Tambo and later Godfrey Pitje, and praises the City’s decision to expropriate the property and restore this historic landmark which stands directly across the road from the main entrance to the magistrate’s Court in Fox Street, with its statue of Justice dominating the façade. JUSTICE FOR HERITAGE AT LAST!
Heritage Today - 16 March 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
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Heritage Today - 2 March 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
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Heritage Today - 23 February 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
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Recent In-Studio Guest, Bev Smith (Executive Director: Heritage Foundation- St Andrew's School for Girls) and Den Adams (Host of Heritage Today)
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Heritage Today - 16 February 2010 - (Each Tuesday at 10H45)
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Heritage Today - 15 September 2009 - (Each Tuesday at 10:45 am)
Gillian Godsell - Jozi Today Tuesday Host, with Flo Bird, Chair of The Parktown & Westcliff Heritage Trust and Heritage Today Host with guest Yvette Hand of the Alberton Heritage Society.
SEPTEMBER
8 Guest, DEN ADAMS to describe the many tours on offer over the PWHT Heritage Weekend.
15 Flo and Yvette Hand of the newly constituted Alberton Heritage Society. Members are already gathering historical information on a number of old buildings which they have identified as significant. The town recently celebrated its centenary and it boasts a Moerdyk church, a hundred year old house which served as a police station (it has the corrugated iron cell in the backyard) as well as the lovely Meyer’s Farmhouse, Klipriviersberg.
22 Flo welcomes Feizel Mamdoo who chairs the Fietas Festival Committee. He describes the range of activities which have been organised including the start of the Fietas Repository at the Matthew Goniwe School, David Goldblatt’s very fine photographs of Fietas before the forced removals and a Lang Arm Dans at the Jan Hofmeyer Recreation Centre featuring live music from The Hot Shots.
24 Heritage Day Flo leads an hour long discussion of our mining heritage which is neglected and ignored by the Chamber of Mines and by the City of Johannesburg and Johannesburg Tourism. Guest Florence Mayekiso, lives in Langlaagte Deep Village and has been secretary to the community organisation for many years, Gerhard von Ketelhodt author of the Golden Crown which deals with the great Crown Mine where he himself started as a miner in 195, Pam Brent of the Boksburg Historical Association, another mining town which is fast losing its magnificent mining heritage, and Jenny Johnson of Central Rand Gold who brings good news of her company’s commitment to improving the George Harrison Park where the discoverer’s claims can be seen.
29 Den Adams talks to Katherine Love who lives at Lindfield, the House she has made into a House Museum. It is packed with artefacts collected by Katherine and her mother. The tour covers drawing room, dining-room, several bedrooms, children’s rooms, library, kitchen, butler’s pantry and even a museum room displaying all the gruesomes beloved of Victorian collectors.
OCTOBER:
6 LT COL DON SMYTHE Transvaal Scottish Regiment 10th Oct
13 SARAH WELHAM a researcher in the PWHT Research Centre, whose favourite study is graveyards altjopugh she also enjoys working on old parts of the city, most recently Hillbrow and Berea. .
20 (Guest didn’t arrive so this one won’t be any good.)
27 DEN PWHT Jacaranda Tours
NOVEMBER
3 Flo and GILLIAN GODSELL discuss the shocking news of the fire which destroyed much of the RISSIK STREET POST OFFICE. One of Johannesburg’s very rare buildings from Paul Kruger’s days. Built in 1897 and a fully declared National Monument it has been shockingly neglected by the City of Johannesburg since the Post Office moned out in 1992.
10 Guest ERIC ITZKIN who is officially in charge of the City’s Immovable heritage and whose advice on the Rissik Street Post Office the Johannesburg property Company completely ignored. He mentions the City’s contribution in terms of identifying heritage sites with heritage plaques.
17 SUE KRIGE
24 KEITH MODDERFONTEIN
DECEMBER
1st Flo talks to artist HERMAN NIEBUHR whose very moving art exhibition called simply MINE DUMPS reminds us forcefully of the beauty and sense of identity Johannesburg is losing as the dumps are recycled.
8 Flo introduces ALIDA VAN DEVENTER, a residents of Westcliff who has lived in YE ROKKES for more than 50 years, much longer than any earlier owners dating right back to 1902. She is also a PUPPETEER, the first to appear on SATV with Willie Walie, and gives performances in the little theatre at Ye Rokkes, oonce a billiard room.
15 DENNIS ADAMS & FLO BIRD
2010
JANUARY
12 Flo and WILLIAM GAUL talk about the buildings which celebrate their CENTENARY in 2010 including the Union Buildings (the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910) the Turffontein Fire Station, the delightful Kleine Schuur in Rhodes Abenue, the Rand regiments memorial (the Anglo Boer war Memorial to the top of the Zoo and William’s own house, Cragside.
19 Flo and DEN ADAMS explain the BLUE AND WHITE HERITAGE PLAQUE programme which identifies important heritage places and gives information to passersby asserting the fact that heritage is a public c0ncern. The programme which is led by Den is a civil society initiative which the City of Johannesburg recognises is an excellent way of promoting the City’s heritage.
26 Flo and HENRY PAINE from the Johannesburg Heritage Trust deal with the refusal of the South African police Services to accept their duties as heritage Inspectors and even refuse to to enforce a Stop Order on Durban Roodepoort Deep to rpoevent the further removal of the Topstar dump. A superintendant at Johannesbuirg Central Police station even refused to accept a complaint regarding the neglect of the Rissik Street Post Office which is a contravention of the national heritage Resources Act.
FEBRUARY
2 NORA MCILROY talks to Flo about the SCHOOLS HERITAGE PROGRAMME which involves the children putting on pinafores and learning to write with a dip pen. That is the highlight for today’s pupils though their grandparents found it a horrible experience.
9 Flo Bird and WILLIAM Gaul chatting in light-hearted vein about
16 Den and
23 Flo talks to HERBERT PRINS, doyenne of the conservationists in South Africa talks about the National Heritage Resources Act and the need for permission to alter or demolish buildings over 60 years old. He accepts that the legislation is far more onerous than the Provincial Administration allows so the PHRAG is severely under- resourced leaving those who uphold the law facing long delays.
Set up to retain the historic architectural heritage of Parktown and Westcliff, the Trust tries to make this heritage accessible through tours of the buildings and the area, publications and special programmes for school children.
It is a fund-raising organisation and donations are most welcome.
Contact Details
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+27-11-482-3349 weekdays between 09:00 and 13:00 (GMT+2) or use that number to leave a message or send a fax to (011) 482 7807 . |
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Northwards 21 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2193; |
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Visit our office at the same address, weekdays between 09.00–13.00 |
Last Edit : 23/01/2012