  {"id":538,"date":"2025-10-17T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/?p=538"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:59:13","slug":"ceremony-at-iziko-museum-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/2025\/ceremony-at-iziko-museum-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceremony at IZIKO Museum, Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Ceremony at IZIKO Museum, Cape Town\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Team member Mr. James Mapanka is serving as a Task Leader in the return of Khoe and San human remains from the Hunterian Museum (Glasgow, Scotland) to Khoesan communities in the Northern Cape in collaboration with the IZIKO South African Museum (Cape Town, South Africa). Mr. Mapanka leads the task of organizing the reburial ceremony of the remains to take place in Kinderl\u00ea, Northern Cape in March 2026. On October 17, 2025, Mr. Mapanka spoke at the Homecoming Ceremony hosted at the IZIKO Museum, which marked the return of the remains from Scotland to South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/03\/PHOTO-2025-12-21-11-53-18.jpg\" alt=\"Ceremony invitation\" class=\"wp-image-535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/03\/PHOTO-2025-12-21-11-53-18.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/03\/PHOTO-2025-12-21-11-53-18-512x768.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/03\/PHOTO-2025-12-21-11-53-18-320x480.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/03\/PHOTO-2025-12-21-11-53-18-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/03\/IMG_3918-1024x1125.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Mapanka at the podium\" class=\"wp-image-536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/03\/IMG_3918-1024x1125.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/03\/IMG_3918-512x562.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/03\/IMG_3918-320x351.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/03\/IMG_3918-768x843.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/03\/IMG_3918.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team member Mr. James Mapanka is serving as a Task Leader in the return of Khoe and San human remains from the Hunterian Museum (Glasgow, Scotland) to Khoesan communities in the Northern Cape in collaboration with the IZIKO South African Museum (Cape Town, South Africa). Mr. Mapanka leads the task of organizing the reburial ceremony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}