News – Media Releases

Join forensic anthropology expert Dr Patrick Randolph-Quinney and Maropeng’s Bone Detective, Brendon Billings, for an evening of murder, mystery and forensic anthropology at Maropeng this August.

Nobel Peace Laureate and former president FW de Klerk was at Maropeng on 29 July 2014 to imprint his footprint, in celebration of the common ancestry of all people alive today.

The biggest gathering of professional and amateur palaeontologists in Southern Africa will take place this coming weekend (11-14 July 2014) at Wits University, when the Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa (PSSA) converges for its 18th Biennial Conference.

The Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) at Wits University is proud to be the host of the 2014 biennial meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa, taking place from 11 to 14 July 2014.

Prehistoric humans, fossils and a glimpse of Earth thousands of years ago kept the learners of Monaghan Montessori School enthralled as they recently toured Maropeng’s Visitor Centre.

Maropeng received four gold awards and a silver at the seventh West Rand Tourism Awards, held on Friday 20 June 2014.

In honour of National Blood Month Maropeng, in association with the South African National Blood Service (SANBS), will hold a blood drive on Friday, 20 June from 10am to 3pm.

There is no doubt that there are aspects about humans that make us special in the animal kingdom – our fathers are one of these.

The Maropeng Hotel is hosting a delicious five-course brandy pairing lunch on Father’s Day, 15 June.

The environment has supported early hominids, their descendants and now us for about eight million years. World Environment Day is on 5 June, and it is a time to remember that if we want the Earth to keep supporting us, we need to support it, too.