A new video installation by Imameleng Masitha at the AVA gallery digs into our rituals to mark mortality and the longing for home soil amid moving and migration
From memorials to digital death notices, Safiri Salama is changing how we say goodbye, giving the funeral industry a tech upgrade
A shortage of burial plots and viable land for new cemeteries has been worsened by the pandemic’s death toll, forcing people to buy rural land on which to bury their loved ones.
Crematoriums, funeral parlours and cemeteries were forced to close, leaving the families of those who died during the unrest to live with their bodies.
Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane goes into isolation and pledges to buy 1000 masks to show her ‘remorse’
Nomawethu Ma’Bhengu Sompeta, whose funeral will be held this weekend, was unequivocal in calling out the government for its response to the Marikana massacre
Joyce Jokanisi died without knowing who killed her son in Marikana and while still battling with heartache and depression from the massacre
Funerals come with a huge price tag here in South Africa, but unless they’re okay with being pariahs, the bereaved must spare no expense
The pneumonic plague is forcing the islanders to abandon their traditional burial rites
‘In KwaZulu-Natal the death industry is big money. Party election war chests need money’
Relatives can pay their respects to loved ones without leaving the comfort of their cars — an initiative supporting an ‘ultra-aged’ country.
A Soweto teenager put himself through school by preparing graves. Now he’s an undertaker, but still gets emotional at the sight of a child’s coffin.
The world-renowned boxer and political activist died on Friday. He was 74. Over 14 000 people met to honour him at his Thursday jenazah, or funeral.
Each province gets over R3m a year to spend on the last rites of its latest and greatest – but if they spend it all in one go, that’s their funeral.
A traumatic tangle of red tape awaits families of undocumented migrants who die in South Africa.
The colour defying life of uncle Bra Jeff.
A taste of the platteland could also include some hard work.
Despite President Robert Mugabe’s grief, he spoke for an hour unaided at his sister’s funeral and put paid to rumours of his own death.