SOUTH AFRICA - Cape Town - Scientific results of the Sutherland skeletons (Video Story) (DeD)

Cape Town - UCT press briefing regarding the cientific results of the Sutherland skeletons. An interdisciplinary team of academics from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and two international institutions has conducted a series of scientific studies on the remains of nine people from Sutherland to uncover a range of findings in an unprecedented moment through which science is used for restorative justice.
The study followed a request from the Abraham and Stuurman families in Sutherland, where the sacred remains had been buried before they were donated to the university in the 1920s. In February 2017, an archival audit by the UCT Curator of Human Remains revealed that the remains of these nine people from Sutherland had been unethically acquired, and the university immediately put a moratorium on these. Video: ian Landsberg/African news Agency (ANA). (DeD)