Collaborations

The MARA programme is collaborating with the AMEMSA programme run by the Universities of Cambridge and Toronto.

MARA works closely with members of the Lesotho Heritage Network, sharing information in a mutual advisory capacity and employing some of the same members of the excavation team - namely Rethabile (Captain) Mokhachane and Joseph Ralimpe.

The MARA Programme is a partner in the colloboration between Mexico, Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique, and is partly funded by the project being run from the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand.

We are working in collaboration with the Mehloding Community Trust which operates the Mehloding Hiking Trail and the Masakala Guest Lodge, both initiatives being run in accordance with Fair Trade principles as outlined by Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa

We are also working in collaboration with the Five Hundred Year Initiative (FYI) to explore how different disciplines engaged in historical studies may better communicate and collaborate within and between each other and to cross the theoretical and methodological borders separating archaeology, history, geography, anthropology and linguistics, in order to understand how and under what influence modern southern African identities have taken shape over the past 500 years.