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Tour to the Little Karoo and southern Cape
Date: Sun, 17/04/2016 - 00:00 to Mon, 25/04/2016 - 00:00
By: Dr Janette Deacon
Northern
Carolus Baatje and the Bastards of the Platberg Mission Station
Date: Tue, 12/04/2016 - 18:00
By: Shelona Klatzow
Western Cape
The nineteenth century Wesleyan mission station of Platberg on the Caledon was situated in the turbulent frontier zone of the Caledon River Valley where arrivals of Bastard groups in Transorangia became a regular occurrence from the 1820s and 1830s.
'The bees are our sheep': the transition to livestock keeping during the last two thousand years in southernmost Africa
Date: Thu, 07/04/2016 - 20:00
By: Faye Lander & Dr Thembi Russell
Northern
We suggest a model for how some foragers may have become stock-keepers in the past.
Swartkrans Hominid Site
Date: Sun, 13/03/2016 - 10:00
By: Excursion led by Dr Morris Sutton
Northern
Dr Sutton will explain the stratigraphy of the site and discuss some of the artefacts and fossils found there.
Forts and Castles, Coasts and Hinterlands: The evolving history of a Ghanaian World Heritage Site
Date: Thu, 03/03/2016 - 20:00
By: Dr Natalie Swanepoel
Northern
One of the most striking features of the coastal landscape in Ghana is the string of European-built fortifications. This talk will contextualise these sites.
Slavery, Race and Citizenship: the ambiguous status of Freed Slaves at the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries
Date: Tue, 01/03/2016 - 18:00
By: Susan Newton-King
Western Cape
The presentation will explore the ambiguities surrounding the social and legal status of manumitted slaves in the Cape Colony in the early eighteenth century.
Constitution Hill Tour
Date: Sun, 21/02/2016 - 10:00
By: Walking tour led by Jo Buitendach
Northern
Join Jo on a relaxed tour through one of Johannesburg’s most impressive historic sites, the Constitution Hill Precinct.
Some finds of interest under the reclaimed seabed of the Silo Precinct, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
Date: Tue, 09/02/2016 - 18:00
By: Tim Hart & Jaco Boshoff
Western Cape
In 1999 the Chavonnes Battery was identified under fills near the Clock Tower area which resulted in a large excavation and subsequent preservation of the site in perpetuity under the BOE building where it is now a museum.
Homo naledi : The Facts
Date: Thu, 04/02/2016 - 20:00
By: Dr Bernhard Zipfel
Northern
The presentation will outline the discovery of a new species of hominin, Homo naledi, consisting of more than 1,500 fossil elements.
Modderfontein’s Heritage Precinct walking tour and picnic with Robbie Vermont
Date: Sun, 22/11/2015 - 10:00
By: Anita Arnott
Northern

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