In addition to research, supervision, some teaching and fossil collections curation and management, it follows that I am required to be involved in community interaction. Through my former extensive experience in teaching and training health sciences undergraduate students, I have interest in communicating science to a wider audience. I regularly take visitors, both scientists and palaeosciences stakeholders as well as members of the public on tours of collections, coordinate fossil exhibitions and also present lectures to various interest groups on palaeontology, human evolution and podiatric medicine.  With the advent of the discoveries of Australopithecus sediba, Homo naledi and the announcement of 'Little Foot' (Australopithecus prometheus), this has given us a wonderful opportunity to carry out numerous outreach exercises to engage the public. 

I have also engaged in diverse, and sometimes controversial topics such as the relationship between science and faith and science and art, and was a founding scientist of the ambitious ‘Scatterlings of Africa’ programme launched by the PAST with the objective to develop a Pan-African strategy for promoting the palaeo-sciences in Africa. I have also been co-opted onto the coordinating committee of the Natural Science Collections Facility established in 2009, an exciting government initiative to protect and preserve natural science collections so that they are accessible for research.