On Sunday, 26 November 2023, the sacred remains of nine Khoi and San individuals, known as the Sutherland Nine were finally laid to rest in Sutherland’s historic cemetery.
|gui, Cornelius Abraham, Jannetjie, Klaas Stuurman, Saartje, Totje, Voetje and two children named G!ae and Saa were laid to rest six years after their skeletal remains were discovered during a 2017 audit which revealed they were unethically brought to the university in the 1920s by a medical student.
The university admitted to this wrongdoing, apologised for the injustice, and embarked on a process of restorative justice which included – among other things – engagement with the Abrahams and Stuurman families who share surnames with some of the nine, and the relevant stakeholders.
For more information on the Sutherland Nine Reburial visit: Sutherland.
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