EFF’s Eugene Mthethwa of parliament’s Portfolio Committee for Sports Arts and Culture, said that the human remains are currently kept in many European and North American museums waiting to be repatriated to South Africa.
“The Repatriation and Restitution Office (RRO) of the [Sahra] and the department are in the process of compiling a list of unethically acquired human remains currently in the care of museums and universities or medical schools in Europe and North America.”
Harvard University in the US is known to have the human remains of Yanghis Stuurman.
The Göttingen University and Charite Berlin, a University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, have ancestral mortal remains.
And the Horniman Museum in London and the Hunterian Museum at the Glasgow Museum, Scotland, have San humans in their collections.
