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History heritage museums auto/biography curatorship collections Cape Town District Six restitution deobjectification ancestral remains UWC Historian

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The return of our ancestors’ sacred human remains 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

The Honourable Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton Mckenzie, will lead the official handover of six ancestral remains at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The event marks the repatriation of Khoe and San ancestral remains from Scotland to South Africa. The…

SportArtsCultur's tweet image. The Honourable Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton Mckenzie, will lead the official handover of six ancestral remains at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The event marks the repatriation of Khoe and San ancestral remains from Scotland to South Africa. The…
SportArtsCultur's tweet image. The Honourable Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton Mckenzie, will lead the official handover of six ancestral remains at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The event marks the repatriation of Khoe and San ancestral remains from Scotland to South Africa. The…
SportArtsCultur's tweet image. The Honourable Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton Mckenzie, will lead the official handover of six ancestral remains at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The event marks the repatriation of Khoe and San ancestral remains from Scotland to South Africa. The…
SportArtsCultur's tweet image. The Honourable Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton Mckenzie, will lead the official handover of six ancestral remains at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The event marks the repatriation of Khoe and San ancestral remains from Scotland to South Africa. The…


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The Honourable Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton Mckenzie, will lead the official handover of six ancestral remains at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The event marks the repatriation of Khoe and San ancestral remains from Scotland to South Africa. The…

SportArtsCultur's tweet image. The Honourable Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton Mckenzie, will lead the official handover of six ancestral remains at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The event marks the repatriation of Khoe and San ancestral remains from Scotland to South Africa. The…
SportArtsCultur's tweet image. The Honourable Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton Mckenzie, will lead the official handover of six ancestral remains at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The event marks the repatriation of Khoe and San ancestral remains from Scotland to South Africa. The…
SportArtsCultur's tweet image. The Honourable Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton Mckenzie, will lead the official handover of six ancestral remains at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The event marks the repatriation of Khoe and San ancestral remains from Scotland to South Africa. The…
SportArtsCultur's tweet image. The Honourable Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton Mckenzie, will lead the official handover of six ancestral remains at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The event marks the repatriation of Khoe and San ancestral remains from Scotland to South Africa. The…

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PhD grant ‘Beyond Restitution’ in Universitat de Barcelona PhD grant associated with the project "Beyond Restitution: Appropriation, Replication, Life, and Exhibition of Colonial Objects in Latin America" in Barcelona. Focus: Colonised countries. restitutionmatters.org/event/phd-gran…?


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Today 16:00–17:30 (UK). Stream opens 15:50 Professor Tracy Ireland on Everyday Aesthetics in Place & Memory Join online placememory.net/events-2/#Tracy

SciPlaceMemory's tweet image. Today 16:00–17:30 (UK). Stream opens 15:50
Professor Tracy Ireland on Everyday Aesthetics in Place & Memory
Join online placememory.net/events-2/#Tracy

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These airlines should be shamed into providing a replacement with NO DELAY. Publicity could make them do so. RT please everyone. Comments please @AerLingus and @SingaporeAir


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I hate how Philippi is described as “outside Cape Town” but Gordon’s Bay, Durbanville or Hout Bay are never given the same description.


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Professor Tracy Ireland Everyday Aesthetics in Place and Memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance Room D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling Wednesday September 10, 4.00-5.30pm Please register here to attend in person or online docs.google.com/forms/d/1xjVAD…


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?Fossil finds in Morocco have revealed that anatomically modern humans emerged at least 300,000 years ago? What was the first human species? | Live Science livescience.com/archaeology/hu…


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I recently came across a political biography of H Selby Msimang (1886-1982) written by Dr Sibongiseni M Mkhize.

HistorySAZAR's tweet image. I recently came across a political biography of H Selby Msimang (1886-1982) written by Dr Sibongiseni M Mkhize.
HistorySAZAR's tweet image. I recently came across a political biography of H Selby Msimang (1886-1982) written by Dr Sibongiseni M Mkhize.

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The African Union has joined the call to replace the outdated 16th-century Mercator map which distorts Africa’s true size, with the Equal Earth projection, a map that shows the continent as it really is: vast, powerful, and central to our world. #CorrectTheMap 💬 “It might seem…

_AfricanUnion's tweet image. The African Union has joined the call to replace the outdated 16th-century Mercator map  which distorts Africa’s true size, with the Equal Earth projection, a map that shows the continent as it really is: vast, powerful, and central to our world. #CorrectTheMap

💬 “It might seem…

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South African group Joy perform Paradise Road live on BBC TV, c 1980's. Joy was a South African female vocal group who had a chart-topping hit in South Africa with Paradise Road. The record spent 9 weeks at No. 1 spot.


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I can’t fully express how I feel reading this report as a Black employee of UofEdinburgh. But I feel the weight of this history in the present. Everyday. I can only express gratitude right now for everyone who led this project for years. theguardian.com/education/2025…

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Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds

Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories


Apply | UWC Lecturer, Historical Studies, UWC Closing Date: 10/08/2025 uwc.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting…


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Full article: Introduction: is the human past a history of colonialism? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


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"One way to confront the colonial legacy is for indigenous people to be able to tell our own stories." -Professor Dolly Kikon Indian tribes visit UK museum to bring home ancestors' remains reuters.com/world/india/in…


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My son put his heart and soul into this school project 🎨💪. A little word of encouragement would mean a lot to him 🌟💖😍

Aleenart5's tweet image. My son put his heart and soul into this school project 🎨💪. A little word of encouragement would mean a lot to him 🌟💖😍

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[In Case You Missed] Press briefing on the Reburial of Khoi and San Ancestral Human Remains and the Exile Repatriation Project earlier this morning at GCIS "We urge all former exiles, comrades, family members, and friends to come forward with any information that could assist…

[Watch]:Minister Gayton Mckenzie hosts press briefing on Repatriation of Ancestral and Exile Remains



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