Don't know if anyone's interested, but some more possible slave skeletons have been discovered in Chiappini Street, Cape Town - raising the debate once again about the 3000 or so skeletons exhumed in Green Point last year. After all the furore about actually allowing them to be exhumed in the first place, SAHRA has ordered that they be kept in closed boxes in Somerset Hospital - which archaeologists call a 'futile exercise', because besides diet, age and causes of death, forensic examination may even be able to throw more light on their place of ethnic origin. Don't know about anyone else, but I agree - can't see what the reason for exhuming them in the first place was if not to analyse. Perhaps others have an alternative view or suggestions on how we can move this motivation forward? Quite serendipitously, a symbolic burial service for all slaves was held earlier in the week on Freedom Day in an effort to 'restore identity' of the many Capetonians who descend from slaves. Just thought I'd mention it for those not in cape Town. Regards Sharon