DULCIE SEPTEMBER
By David Rilley-Harris, Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History (DNMMH). One woman who wanted to be a school teacher in 1950s South Africa would find herself in the late 1980s, the sole agent on the verge of breaking an international
AFRICAN INDEGINOUS BELIEFS, SECRET RITUAL PERFOMANCES AND CULTURAL PRACTICES DURING WARFARE
By: Abraham Mohale, Junior Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History Limited Nature of Early Tribal Warfare Warfare was a low-intensity conflict among the black tribes or the so called “Bantu” prior to the rise of King Shaka (Zulu Kingdom), Moshoeshoe (Lesotho)
ANC INTELLIGENCE COMMUNICATION – FROM LONDON TO LUSAKA – RADIO FREEDOM
By: Abraham Mohale, Junior Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History I grew up in the black township of Ga-Rankuwa, situated around Pretoria North, in the 1980s. My late father Harry Mohale, used to be a political activist and a member
Nazi police bayonet
By David Rilley-Harris, Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History (DNMMH) Under the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), Germany’s police force was under multi-party government control, and each German state exercised some degree of authority over its state’s police force. In mid-1933, the
MEMORIAL PLAQUE, ‘DEAD MAN’S PENNY’ – FIRST WORLD WAR (WW1)
By Tinyeko Captain Ndhlovu, Curator: Insignia, Memorial Plaques, Postal History, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History Introduction This article is a significant contribution to the military numismatic medallion known as the memorial plaque, which was introduced by the British Empire to honour
AN INTERESTING AND UNIQUE CONNECTION : The Duke of Edinburgh and the South African Navy Destroyer SAS Simon van der Stel
Allan Sinclair, Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History Introduction The year 2022 commemorates one hundred years of South African naval history. A small but significant part of this history is the connection between Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who passed
HOW TO “FREEZE” A BAT IN FLIGHT: WHY IT IS DONE AND WHAT IT CAN TELL US
Teresa Kearney, Curator: Vertebrate Department, Small Mammals, DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History (DNMNH) Bats are primarily nocturnal (active at night), and their behaviour is largely unseen by us given it mostly happens in the dark. Ernest Seamark of AfricanBats NPC
THE MINT: FROM BULLION TO COIN – ENTRANCE TO EXIT
Jan van den Bos, Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Cultural History The Renaissance style and sandstone façade of the National Bank building or de Nationale Bank en Munt on the north-western corner of Church Square, Pretoria is evidence of an almost
FORGOTTEN STORIES CAN BREATHE NEW LIFE IN MUSEUM OBJECTS
By Frank Teichert, Curator, Archaeology and Human Remains, DITSONG: National Museum of Cultural History There are several different ways that stories are told and passed on from generation to generation. We as humans have stories, our lives are a story, whether
HISTORY OF DITSONG: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT
By Frank Teichert, Curator, Archaeology and Human Remains, DITSONG: National Museum of Cultural History The DITSONG: National Museum of Cultural History (DNMCH) had its humble beginnings as the Staatsmuseum of the Zuid-AfrikaanscheRepubliekn(ZAR) in 1892. The State Museum was at first a