YEBO GOGGO ama Blomo EXPOs

Yebo Gogga Yebo amaBlomo is an annual exhibition where the public and school learners can see and learn about fascinating bugs, plants and animals.  Every year the theme of the exhibition changes to reveal interesting information about the amazing creatures that inhabit this planet, especially those in South Africa.  School groups can use the tailor-made workbooks to explore the wide variety of displays and learn more about the unique and exciting things on show.

Yebo Gogga is held annually at the Oppenheimer Life Sciences Building on the Wits East Campus.  Various organisations assist with this extremely popular event

• Adler Museum of Medicine ,
• Animal Plant & Environmental Sciences
• CSIR
• Endangered Wildlife Trust
• Free Me
• Gauteng Conservancy and Stewardship Association and NACSSA
• Medical Entomology
• Melville Koppies
• NFI Transvaal Museum
• Plant Protection Research Institute
• School of Education
• School of Geosciences
• School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
• Spider Club
• The Tree Society
• Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens

For more Information and photographs visit Wits University, Yebo Gogga

2015 - INTO THE LIGHT – Light is the energy to convert inorganic compounds into the stuff of life. It allows vision with all that sight makes possible. Seeing food, mates, rivals or danger is a matter of survival for most animals. Night and day provide the rhythm of our lives and day length the cue for the changing seasons. It is not surprising that the ancients worshiped the sun, it is the foundation for life as we know it.

2014- RAINBOW WORLD – Red, blue, green, yellow, white – what’s in a colour?

Colour in the animal and plant kingdom is loaded with information and carries different meanings. Discover and decode these colour codes at the 2014 Yebo Gogga Yebo amaBlomo exhibition hosted by the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences at Wits University.

2013- UNDERGROUND – Ultimately all life depends on what happens underground.

Explore this unknown realm with us.  Few plants can live without soil, without the many organisms living in the soil breaking down litter and recycling the dead the earth would be buried meters deep.  The soil plays a vital role in the water cycle and is alive with creatures, some for shelter and rest, some for their whole lives.  We will peep into what goes on under our feet.

2012- JUS’ CHILLIN – how living things keep cool

How climate change affects insects and all living things, and how they adapt to extreme temperatures.

2011 - EXPLORER  - whether they walk, fly, crawl, or swim living creatures explore every corner of our world

2010 – BIODIVERSITY – International year of biodiversity

2010 is the international year of biodiversity and we hope recognizing the wealth and diversity around us will inspire us all to be better custodians of earth.  Learn to tread more gently and treasure more passionately the only known life in the universe.