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Roger Stewart

  • Shipwrecks and Survivors: Epic Tales Hidden in a Rare 18th-Century Map of Southern Africa
  • The traveller in the map
  • Spies, spices, scurvy, and a small map of Madagascar
  • A Secret Sea Chart Revealed
  • He changed the shape of the Cape coast
  • Confessions of a Collector of Heritage Maps
  • The first printed map of South Africa - The Martin Waldseemüller map
  • Africana map collection resurfaces after half a century
  • Portrait of a Springbok - Lest we forget

From our Archive

  • The Dube Story
  • The Birth of the Market Theatre
  • The Tay Bridge Disaster
  • The Bokoni of Mpumalanga
  • Remembering the days when my family owned the Three Castles Building
  • Peers the Artist - In search of Charles Ernest Peers (Part 2)
  • Building Africa's Tallest Building - The Leonardo, Sandton
  • Newtown's Edwardian Lavatory survives against the odds
  • St John’s College, Johannesburg, and the Spanish flu of 1918
  • Cullinan Mine - Open Pit and Haulage
  • The Lost World of Denver Station
  • The Krugersdorp Club - History, Secrets and Social Life
  • Memorials to the Zulu dead at Isandlwana
  • Solving the Mystery Behind "Grannie's Grave" in Braamfontein Cemetery
  • Sandton's Forgotten Race Track

From the Directory

  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
  • Kensington Residents and Ratepayers Association (KRRA)
  • Old Wynberg Village Society
  • Cape's Threatened Buildings
  • Ceres Rail Company
  • Pam McLaren - Female Ancestry British Kaffaria & Natal
  • Simon Green - Anglo-Boer War Expert
  • Swellendam Heritage Association (SHA)
  • Lepogo La Thaba Adventures
  • Hardijzer Photographic Research Collection
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