{"id":31874,"date":"2026-04-14T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31874"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:59:14","slug":"sa-returns-ancestral-remains-and-zimbabwe-bird-artefact","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-returns-ancestral-remains-and-zimbabwe-bird-artefact\/","title":{"rendered":"SA returns ancestral remains and Zimbabwe Bird artefact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa (SA) has returned ancestral human remains and a centuries-old stone carving of the Zimbabwe Bird to Zimbabwe in a ceremony held in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eight coffins draped in Zimbabwean flags were displayed during the handover event, which was attended by officials from both countries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Zimbabwe Bird is a sacred national symbol, long associated with the country\u2019s cultural and historical identity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials say little is known about the human remains, except that they were unethically exhumed and taken for research during the colonial era.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChanelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26978,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-31874","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SA has returned ancestral human remains and a centuries-old stone carving of the Zimbabwe Bird to Zimbabwe","published_date":"2026-04-14 18:58:38","news_description":"SA has returned ancestral human remains and a centuries-old stone carving of the Zimbabwe Bird to Zimbabwe","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31875,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31874\/revisions\/31875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}