Gosiame ‘Amy’ Goitsemodimo (third row second from left) from the Anthropology Department attended the Anthropology Southern Africa conference that took place at the University of Malawi, Zomba in August.

Delegates at  the 13th conference of the Herpetological Association of Africa. (Photo: S. Parusnath)

The Edwardian era is said to be an age of elegance and extravagance. But for most women it meant dresses frothed with lace and constricting corsets, hoops, and innumerable petticoats that covered, compressed and physically modified their figures.

On 25 May 2017 the  Museum hosted a function to celebrate Africa Day. This year the focus fell on xenophobia, and how Oliver Reginald Tambo’s vision of Pan-Africanism should inspire South Africans to embrace multiculturalism.

In 2017 the National Museum commemorated the centenary of South Africa’s struggle icon and former ANC president, Oliver Reginald Tambo (1917–1993).