Established in 1969 and based in Johannesburg, Science Fiction and Fantasy South Africa (SFFSA) is a club for fans of both science fiction and fantasy. Membership benefits include monthly meetings, annual mini-conventions, an extensive library, a quarterly Probe fanzine, the Nova short story competition, and much more! International and national members are more than welcome.
Talk and movie
Join us for a talk by Prof. James Roberts, head of Geology at the University of Pretoria on his work on gold fingerprinting and other aspects of forensic geology. In SA where illegal mining is rife, science can help in identifying where stolen gold originates from. Gold, platinum, diamonds and other cases will be discussed covering both the illegal mining trade and efforts to combat this.
Afterwards we will be watching John Carter, a 2012 American science fiction action-adventure film directed by Andrew Stanton, based on a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. In a flashback to 1868 in the Arizona Territory, Union Colonel Powell arrests Carter with hopes that Carter will help in fighting local Apache. Carter escapes his holding cell, but fails to get far with U.S. cavalry soldiers in close pursuit. After a run-in with a band of Apache, Carter and a wounded Powell are chased until they hide in a cave that turns out to be filled with gold.
