63 Ancestral Remains Reburied in South Africa After Centuries in Europe
15:11 23.03.2026 (Updated: 15:24 23.03.2026)
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63 Ancestral Remains Reburied in South Africa After Centuries in Europe
On Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa officiated the reburial ceremony of Khoi & San remains at the Kinderlê Monument in Steinkopf, marking the culmination of repatriation efforts from Europe.
"These remains are a small group of thousands of illegally removed remains of indigenous people during the late 19th century and the early 20th century, [that] would be traded or donated to newly established museums and universities," a statement by the SA government said.
The statement stressed that for centuries, San and Khoi people endured numerous violations:
🟠colonial conquest,
🟠land dispossession,
🟠cultural erasure and removal,
🟠race-based scientific research,
🟠exploitation of ancestral remains.
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