In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...

The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull belonged to a child who ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes ... skull from a South Africa limestone quarry, known as the Taung child, belonged to one of mankind’s distant ancestors.

Deputy Minister in the Presidency, Kenny Morolong, will on Tuesday 22 April 2025 engage stakeholders in Taung, North West Province, as part of Freedom Month Outreach Programme.