The Living History project kicked off in Cape Town on Saturday 8 September. Over 300 people, including Mayor Helen Zille, gathered at the Mallet Centre at the Diocesan College in Claremont.

Dr Wilmot James led participants on a quick tour of 200,000 years of human history as he set the scene for the understanding of migration patterns that led to the current demographic state of the world. Participants then scraped the insides of their cheeks with swabs to collect skin cells and now await their results.

The next Living History event is to take place in Durban. The provisional date for this is Thursday, 18th October in the Colin Webb Hall. More details will be released closer to the time.