5 MINUTES WITH Dr Keneiloe Molopyane

For someone obsessed with cartoons, it’s a pretty big deal to be turned into a superhero. Her superpower? Bringing the past into the present.

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Enter archaeologist and palaeontologist Dr Keneiloe Molopyane, a National Geographic certified emerging explorer. When she isn’t hard at work at the University of the Witwatersrand, then she’s doing excavation work in the Cradle of Humankind. Meanwhile, she has been featured as one of the superheroes in the international SuperScientist’s project to inspire future researchers. With her National Geographic Society project underway, we stole five minutes with Dr Molopyane to find out how she got here.

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