We are geoscience professionals, researchers, business owners, educators, students and others who are interested the Earth sciences.

This local branch of the Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA) was founded in 1979. Professor Arthur Fuller was the first chairman, Dr Clive Stowe the secretary and Dr John Rogers the treasurer. Mick Mountain and Professor Gerrie Söhnge completed the founding committee. The Branch maintained a strong link to the mother society and has been instrumental in setting up a local representation of the GSSA.

Through the years, academic and professional members have found it an extremely useful mechanism to communicate on recent research by arranging talks and field trips. Simultaneously, it also provided a home for many other interested parties. It provided leadership and assistance in organizing many past conferences, the biggest of which being the 1990 Geocongress and 2008 AAPG Conference.

Geological heritage features strongly in the history of the branch, with the SANLAM-sponsored Geosites Project of the 1990’s having taken the lead in providing information on the geological history of selected sites. In addition, we strive to promote geology and science in education at primary, secondary and tertiary schooling levels.