From left to right: Talita Fourie (Post Office Archives and Museum), Tebogo Mohlakane-Mafereka (Department of Arts And Culture, KwaZulu-Natal), Lorinda Hakimi (George Museum), Lebohang Nyenye (Free State Provincial Museum Services, Bloemfontein), and Myra Gohodzi, Elmar du Plessis and Khotso Pudumo, (all of the National Museum).
The Museum’s delegation at the launch. From left Michael Bates, Sina Chaka, Elize Butler, Agnes Phindane, Jan Andries Neethling, Buyi Makhubo and Lizel Hugo-Coetzee. (Photo: F. Kigozi)
Veldwerk, as deel van Gerda Coetzee se doktorale studie, het vroeër die jaar op die plaas Mooifontein, Colesberg-distrik, plaasgevind.
In September, Dr Mike Bates spent three days at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria examining preserved specimens of egg-eating snakes and plated lizards for museum projects.
Dr Mike Bates (Herpetology Department) with Arthur Tiutenko (Germany) at the SEH European Congress of Herpetology in Saltzburg, Austria in September 2017. Mike presented a paper entitled “A new species of dragon lizard from Swaziland and South Africa”, co-authored by Dr Edward Stanley (Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, U.S.A.).