{"id":41196,"date":"2026-07-31T07:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41196"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:59:07","slug":"sa-to-brief-media-on-repatriation-of-liberation-activists-from-angola","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-to-brief-media-on-repatriation-of-liberation-activists-from-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"SA to brief media on repatriation of liberation activists from Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The media briefing will take place at Freedom Park in the country&#8217;s capital, Pretoria. It will be hosted by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture through the SA Heritage Resources Agency.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is being undertaken in partnership with the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development and the Department of Defence and Military Veterans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Government is expected to provide an update on the second phase of the 2026\/27 Repatriation and Restitution of Human Remains and Heritage Objects Plan, with Angola identified as the immediate focus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The work forms part of the Resistance and Liberation Heritage Route Programme, which seeks to preserve the memory of SA\u2019s liberation struggle and honour those who died in exile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The African National Congress remains an important partner in the process, having maintained an operational presence in Angola during the liberation struggle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The repatriation programme gives effect to a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the governments of SA and Angola in December 2024 under the Roads to Independence: African Liberation Heritage Programme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The agreement provides a framework for tracing, identifying, recovering and returning the remains of South Africans who died outside the country while participating in the struggle against apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41197,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-41196","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South Africa's (SA) government will on Friday outline the next phase of efforts to repatriate the remains of liberation struggle activists who died in exile in Angola.","published_date":"","news_description":"South Africa's (SA) government will on Friday outline the next phase of efforts to repatriate the remains of liberation struggle activists who died in exile in Angola.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41196","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\/41196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41198,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41196\/revisions\/41198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}