Natal Museum News Today

Step back in time to a place that chronicles the history of the region. The KZN museum is a charming experience filled with natural and cultural discoveries.

Dr Riaan Rifkin, an anthropologist and prehistoric archaeologist, sheds light on a pathogen that infected a child two millennia ago.

Judith Masters and Fabien Génin had both recently retired from the University of Fort Hare after celebrated careers researching lemurs and their kin.

Eastern Cape police have released the names of a couple that was found dead in their Hogsback home on Monday. The bodies of Prof Judith Masters and Dr Fabien Génin were found by their domestic helper. Their hands and feet were bound with cables. Police have not released the cause of death. Masters, 66, was a retired professor of zoology at the University of Fort Hare while Génin, 50, worked as a senior lecturer at Fort Hare and as a research officer at Nelson Mandela University.

Acclaimed retired University of Fort Hare academic Professor Judith Masters and her French partner, Fabien Génin, haven been found murdered in their Hogsback home. 



References The Brenthurst Library To Whom It May Concern I am the Head Librarian/Manager of The Brenthurst Library in Johannesburg, a privately-owned research library holding collections of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, artworks and photographic materials. In 2016 the library collaborated with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on a project to digitise records relating to Robert Jacob Gordon, the last Dutch military commander at the Cape. The library holds a substantial archive of manuscript materia...