Mathole Motshekga: Homo Naledi, human ancestry link is offensive - should be rejected

Loading player...
Founder of the Kara Institute, Mathole Motshekga, says Lee Berger and other paleoanthropologists who linked the recently discovered fossils to human ancestry are wrong because they failed to consider indigenous knowledge in their conclusions. He referred to the fossils of Homo Naledi as being those of baboons or monkeys, and says the science behind the conclusion of being connected to human beings as speculative, without basis. Motshekga says South Africans should not celebrate as they are meant to insult, particularly Africans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 Sep 2015 6AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

BN Edge | Piet le Roux: ICASA, Starlink and the true cost of BEE

To sell internet access in South Africa, you first have to show ICASA the race of your shareholders. Sakeliga has now taken the regulator to the Pretoria High Court, but, oddly, not to scrap the 30% black-ownership rule. Chief executive Piet le Roux told Alec Hogg why he chose the…
13 Nov 6AM 28 min