Where is Sarah Baartman’s remains? Where is Sarah Baartman buried? What happened to Sarah Baartman’s remains?

Baartman’s life was filled with adversity. Her mother died when she was two years old, and her father, a cattle driver, died when she was an adolescent.

She is supposed to have been born in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1789.

After a Dutch colonist murdered her spouse, with whom she had a child who died, she went into domestic service in Cape Town.

Where is Sarah Baartman’s remains?

Sarah Baartman’s remains are interred in a simple tomb in Hankey, a small farming village in the Eastern Cape.

Where is Sarah Baartman buried?

Sarah Baartman is buried in a simple tomb in Hankey

What happened to Sarah Baartman’s remains?

Her bones were returned to her homeland, the Gamtoos Valley, on May 6, 2002, and buried on August 9, 2002, over 200 years after her birth, on Vergaderingskop, a hill in the town of Hankey.