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Reburial of Human Remains from Manogeng Substation

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Eskom commissioned an archaeological rescue programme at Manogeng after the chance discovery of human remains in 2018. To date seventy-nine (79) individual skeletons have been isolated, making it probably the largest assemblage of human remains of a pre-colonial date ever to be found in South Africa. The archaeological rescue programme was completed in November 2021. The human remains must be reburied at a site that has been prepared beside the substation.

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The first skeletons were rescued in 2018 and the archaeological rescue operation was launched, which ended with the completion of earthworks in November 2022 four years afterward. The human remains are kept at the site, and as construction of the substation nears the end and the substation will be commissioned, they must be buried without delay. Arrangements to keep the human remains at the site after the construction work has ceased will be expensive, and from a heritage management perspective, this is not an option.

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Thursday, September 1, 2022 - 10:43

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19454

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Manogeng Brief Heritage Report

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Images
Public notices in English and Sepedi
View of Manongeng from the R555 Rd from Stoffberg to Steelpoort
Archaeological monitoring of earthwork in June 2021
Archaeological rescue of human remains from a topsoil stockpile
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  1. PDF icon Attendance Register 1 Stakeholder meetings
  2. PDF icon Attendance Register 2 Stakeholder meetings
  3. PDF icon Attendance Register 3 Stakeholder meetings
 
 

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