Cradle of Humankind to host major Gauteng Heritage Day event
This year’s programme will include a multicultural food and fashion market, craft market and musical dance performances from various cultural groups.
The Gauteng government will celebrate Heritage Day on Friday, September 24 at the historical Cradle of Humankind in Maropeng under the theme ‘The year of Charlotte Maxeke: Celebrating South Africa’s Intangible Cultural Heritage’.
The Cradle of Humankind is one of the world’s most important heritage sites because of the wealth of fossils found in the area and, in particular, fossils of ancient humans. The area has yielded and has continued to produce an enormous amount of information about our human origins.
This year’s programme will include a multicultural food and fashion market, craft market and musical dance performances from various cultural groups in full compliance with Covid-19 regulations.
Reflecting on the importance of heritage in nation-building, Gauteng Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation MEC Mbali Hlophe said, “The national strategy for developing an Inclusive and cohesive nation is explicit that a nation-building process entails a commitment to working together to eradicate the divisions and injustices of the past, to foster unity and to promote a countrywide conscious sense of being proudly South African”.
