The National Department of Tourism has handed the Kgodumodumo Dinosaur Interpretation Centre over to SANParks. Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille has described the Kgodumodumo Dinosaur Interpretation Centre in the Free State as a potential economic hub.
Accordingly, this centre will diversify South Africas tourism offerings.
The Department and the South African National Parks launched the centre at the Golden Gate Highlands Park in Clarens. Through the multimillion-rand initiative, the discovery of the fossils of dinosaurs which inhabited the eastern Free State millions of years ago will help preserve culture and history.
Nestled in the heart of the Maluti mountain range in the eastern Free State, the Kgodumodumo Dinosaur Interpretation Centre has now claimed centre stage. The centre is unique in that it showcases various dinosaurs from the Triassic period, which are much older than those from the Jurassic period - a true validation of stories told of the Kgodumodumo by the Basotho people throughout time.
Free State Tourism MEC Ketso Makume described the centre as a pride of the Basotho nation.