{"id":151650,"date":"2026-03-25T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/151650\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:01:57","slug":"stolen-ancestral-remains-laid-to-rest-in-south-africa-africa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/151650\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen ancestral remains laid to rest in South Africa | Africa News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a poignant victory for historical justice, South Africa has finally laid to rest 63 indigenous ancestors whose <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e6ed9b82c58d866f5444e7e64&amp;id=c8af4a6de8&amp;e=3269b30121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">remains were stolen<\/a> for colonial \u201cresearch.\u201d Exhumed between 1868 and 1924 to support debunked theories of racial superiority, these Khoi and San individuals were repatriated from Scotland\u2019s Hunterian Museum. President Cyril Ramaphosa led the emotional reburial, condemning the era when African bodies were treated as mere \u201cspecimens\u201d by European pseudoscience. This milestone follows years of intense diplomatic negotiations and marks a significant step in the global movement to return looted artifacts and remains. By returning these ancestors to the earth, South Africa is successfully reclaiming its heritage and restoring the stolen dignity of its first inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a poignant victory for historical justice, South Africa has finally laid to rest 63 indigenous ancestors whose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[131],"class_list":{"0":"post-151650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116286884693558572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}