Visit the Melville Koppies and broaden your horizon
You can hold the tools of San/Bushmen hunters in your hand and then imagine them planning their hunt from one of their encampments.
“Everyone knows that gold is what initially brought hundreds of people to Johannesburg in the 1880s.
“However people had been living here for thousands of years before that and, just close to the city centre at Melville Koppies, visitors have a chance to see proof of their existence and learn how they lived,” said volunteer Jenny Grice.
She said that visitors can hold the tools of San/Bushmen hunters in their hand, imagine them planning their hunt from one of their encampments and be amazed at how Joburg’s first farmers coupled their farming expertise with knowing how to smelt iron from iron-bearing rocks.
Even an attempt at gold exploration is still visible.
Book a guided tour priced at R100 per adult to open your eyes or enjoy Melville Koppies’s other treasures.
Entrance fee is R90 for adults and for children under the age of 18 its R50. Season tickets for a year cost R500.
Take a map and explore at your own pace. Poetry reading every second Sunday of the month with Rabbie Seremula at 10:00 in the lecture hut.
Longer 8km hikes take place on the last Sunday of the month.
Melville Koppies is open on Sunday mornings from 08:00 to 11:30.
Team-building groups/school groups can also be arranged. All funds raised is used to maintain the Koppies.
For more details contact 079 532 0083 or email wendavid@mweb.co.za
