On 28 February 2019, conference delegates will undertake an excursion to the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site. This popular tourist destination is one of 8 World Heritage Sites in South Africa, and the only one in Gauteng Province. It is within this site at a place called Taung that the first hominid, Australopithecus, was found by Professor Raymond Dart of the University of the Witwatersrand. The excursion to the Cradle of Humankind will therefore provide the conference delegates first-hand experience of the birthplace of humankind. Arrangements have been made with the Maropeng Visitor Centre (www.maropeng.co.za) to take the conference delegates through a journey of discovery to learn more about the origins of humankind. This will be followed by a visit to the Sterkfontein Caves which is one of the world’s richest hominid fossil sites and also the site of the longest continuous palaeoanthropological dig in the world, with excavations having begun there in 1935. Taking lunch at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site is promising to be a lifetime experience not to be missed.