The National Museum of Military History will be closed.
Please note: The DITSONG: National Museum of Military History will be closed on Thursday 20 October 2022. This is due to a water shut down caused by the connection of new pipes at the Illovo Reservoir. Your cooperation in this regard will be
THE BL 60-pr MEDIUM GUN
By: Michael Tobolo, Junior Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History INTRODUCTION Despite the critical and decisive role that artillery played in the great wars and that it dominated the battlefields, the history of artillery during most conflicts has been neglected. Its
THE EFFECT OF COVID-19 IN THE ARMY
By: Mpho Khalo: Junior Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History Introduction Coronaviruses are a group of viruses belonging to the family of Coronaviridae, infecting animals and humans. On 31 December 2019, Covid-19 was reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO), and
THE MAASAI
By: David Rilley-Harris, Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History (DNMMH) More than one million Maasai people live in a region on the east coast of Africa, which encompasses Central and Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania. Their traditional Nilotic language is
SECOND WORLD WAR/WWII 1939-45: SOUTH AFRICAN COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE OF REMEMBRANCE
By: Tinyeko Captain Ndhlovu, Curator: Insignia, Memorial Plaques, Postal History, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History INTRODUCTION Around twelve thousand servicemen and women of the Union Defence Force (UDF) lost their lives during the Second World War/WWII (1939-45). In honour of these
MODEL OF THE MINESWEEPER HMSAS SOUTHERN BARRIER
By: Allan Sinclair – DITSONG: National Museum of Military History A scale model of the South African auxiliary minesweeping whaler, HMSAS Southern Barrier, is displayed at the DITSONG: National Museum of Military History (DNMMH). The significance of this model is that
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
The Surrender Of the Tobruk Garisson June 1942
June is an important month in South Africa’s history owing to the 16 June 1976 protests initiated by the students of Soweto against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of education.
