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Please be aware that no content and application creation or changes to information on this version of SAHRIS will be retained.
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Changes to SAHRIS!
The South African Heritage Resources Information System (SAHRIS) has undergone a generational upgrade and restructure. These changes to the site include, but are not limited to:
- A new & modernised look and layout
- Improved site usage flows with respect to applications and content creation
- Improved site performance and stability
Launch for the new version of SAHRIS occurred onĀ Monday the 30th of October 2023.
The new site can be found here:
SAHRIS | SAHRIS
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This structure, being part of the larger NZASM endeavour, falls under the generic NZASM statement of significance, but specifically is also a good extant example of its type. Its importance lies in its associations with South Africa's community, heritage, and is considered uncommon, rare and endangered; it has the potential to yield information for understanding; as an object it demonstrates principal characteristics; has particular aesthetic characteristics; demonstrates a high degree of technical achievement; has strong and special associations with both historic and contemporaneous communities; has a special association with the life and work of an important organisation and its associated persons; and is significant in revealing labour practices of the time; all as they relate to the culture of South Africa and her international cultural historic affiliates. It is a unique structure in that it was designed at a curvature and an incline to accommodate the ratchet line system. (Government Gazette 1516 of 1962: 'The tunnel was part of the N.Z.A.S.M railway line built in 1891-1895 between Pretoria and Lorenco Marques. In few of the steep gradient it was fitted with a rack railway.)