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Fresh burials in Westbury Park Cemetery in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday, June 24, 2021. With Africas most developed nation recording one of the worlds fastest pace of deaths from Covid-19 infections, large swathes of the country are being deluged with offers of burial insurance. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
BACKLOG

What would you do if your loved one’s body was stuck in a mortuary and you couldn’t bury them?

Families have asked the Congress of Traditional Leaders and the Human Rights Commission to intervene after waiting years to bury their loved ones

  • Masoka Dube
8 min read
BUSHBUCKRIDGE

Anger as Mpumalanga chief bans home burials

People who buried relatives at home were detained at the Mathibela tribal council and ordered to pay a R20 000 fine

  • Masoka Dube
9 min read