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[Interview2] Long quest to understand these bodies without identities

The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

South Africa’s mortuaries are buckling under the volume of bodies, with Hillbrow’s medico-legal laboratory processing more than 3 000 last year alone