Victims of colonial ‘science’ reburied in South Africa (VIDEOS)
South Africa has reburied the ancestral remains of Khoisan people, including some recently repatriated from Scotland Read Full Article at RT.com
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Pretoria will restore the dignity of its indigenous peoples despite the failure of European nations to offer “unqualified apologies”, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said
The remains of 63 indigenous Khoisan people, which were exhumed, traded and displayed in the name of colonial-era science, have been reburied in South Africa at a ceremony President Cyril Ramaphosa described as a long-overdue act of dignity and restitution.
The reburial took place at the Kinderle memorial site in Steinkopf, Northern Cape, a historic landmark associated with the 1867 massacre of 32 Nama children while their parents attended a church service.
Speaking during the ceremony, Ramaphosa said the burial sought to restore humanity to victims of a violent past in which indigenous communities were “robbed of their names, their culture, and their very humanity.”
He said many locals were coerced to leave southern Africa for Europe during “a dark period of scientific racism” in the late 18th century and 19th century, “where their physical features made them exotic specimens for exhibition, study and exploitation.”
[RECAP]: President @CyrilRamaphosa officiates the Reburial of ancestral Khoi and San human remains.
