“The Big 5” – Five Key Palaeoanthropologists at DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History.
Lazarus Kgasi, Junior Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History. Within a period of 80 years since 1936 (the year in which the first Australopithecus fossil was discovered at Sterkfontein), the Plio-Pleistocene Palaeontology section of DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History,
THE FRANCE–SOUTH AFRICA ARMS RELATIONSHIP DURING APARTHEID
By: David Rilley-Harris, Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History Figure 1: French Alouette and Mirage aircraft previously in South African Service.(Photo: DITSONG: National Museum of Military History). From the 1960s onward, South Africa has had an arms trade relationship with France,
Coproliths – fossilised animal dung
Dr Heidi Fourie, curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History Imagine holding in your hand not a skull or a shell, but something far humbler – fossilised dung. It is a coprolite, a fossil excretion that carries within it a treasure
Gustav Schoeman Preller And The Kruger Millions: Fabricated Or Fact
By: Jan van den Bos, Curator: DITSONG: National Museum of Cultural History As a writer, historian and journalist, Gustav Preller (1875-1943) dedicated his career to the history of South Africa. His publication: Day-Dawn portrays the history of South Africa between 1836