Today, 36 years, ago the United Democratic Front, the largest anti-apartheid formation since the banning of the political organisations in the 1960s was established in the Rocklands Civic Centre in Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town.
South Africa celebrates Women’s Month annually in August and pays tribute to the more than 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956. The women marched in order to protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women. The Pass Laws represented a system which was intended to control women even further and reduce women to passive beings, at the mercy of men.
National Museum CEO, Sharon Snell, visits ongoing archaeological excavations and fieldwork along the Modder River near Bloemfontein.
This fieldwork project is a collaborative effort including Dr. Michael Toffolo, Junior Research Chair at the Research Institute on Archaeological Materials at Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France; Dr. Britt Bousman, Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University, USA; Dr. Christopher Miller, Professor at the Institute for Archaeological Science at
The late nineteenth century ‘witnessed an unprecedented explosion in the creation and expansion of the number of natural history museums’ all over the world. These institutions were mostly located in the metropolitan centers and main cities of Europe and North America. It also found a place in other parts of the world including in the former Republic of the Orange Free State.
Soutpan is a town in the Lejweleputswa District in the Free State province of South Africa. Afrikaans for ‘salt pan or depression’, the name is derived from a large geographical feature of that type, on the slopes of which the Florisbad archaeological site is situated. This natural spring is an important site for palaeontology and zoology, as it is the spot at which many fossils, such as the, now extinct, Pelorovis (giant buffalo) and the world renowned Florisbad skull, were discovered. The latter refers to a hominid skull that has been estimated to be some 260 000 years old, it is an important link in understanding the development of the human family tree.