No image available Article / 1 January 2002 Europe’s ‘barbarians’ to blame for Sarah, says Mbeki South African President Thabo Mbeki slammed 19th century Europeans as ”barbarians” on Friday at the long-delayed funeral of Sarah Baartman, the so-called Hottentot Venus, who was paraded naked as a sexual freak in Britain and France in the 1800s. By Staff Reporter