Contents
Map of places mentioned in the text
1. Introduction and Historical Background
to the Conservation of Monuments and Sites in South Africa
Janette
Deacon and Penny Pistorius
2. Legislation and the National Monuments Act
Penny
Pistorius
3. Forms of Protection Provided by the National
Monuments Act
Jenette
Deacon and George Hofmeyr
4. Cultural Resource Management and the
Environrnent Conservation Act. 1989
Ingrid Coetzee, Alicia Monis and Juanita Pastor
5. National Databases on Monuments and Sites
John Gribble
6. Conservation Policy for Heritage Sites in
South Africa
Janette Deacon
7. Protection of South Africa's Natural
Heritage, with particular reference to Table Mountain
George Hofmeyr
8. Case Studies of Conservation Practice at
Archaeological and Palaeontological Sites
Janette Deacon
9. Presenting South Africa's Rock Art Sites
Geoffrey
Blundell
10. Conservation Practice for Historical
Shipwrecks
John Gribble
11. The Castle of Good Hope
Janet te
Deacon, Gabriël Fagan and Gwen Fagan
12. The Archaeology of the Castle of Good Hope
Martin Hall
13. Industrial Heritage: Three Western Cape
Water-mills
Sonette Bezuidenhout
14. Bethany, the House of the Poor
Herma
Gous
15. Conservation of Properties Owned by the
National Monuments Council
Desmond K. Martin
16. Conservation of War Graves
Jean Beater
17. Sol Plaatje House: a Monument to a Great
South African
Colin
Fortune and Leigh Deyzel
18. A Memorial to Enoch Mankanyi Sontonga
Geneveve
Walker
19. Urban Conservation in Graaff Reinet
Peter Whitlock
20. Conservation in the Urban Environment:
Conservation Areas in Cape Town
Stephen S. Townsend
21. Robben Island: A Case Study in Contemporary
Conservation Practice
Laura Robinson
22. Strategies for Change in Heritage
Management in the New South Africa
Lesley Freedman Townsend