Families of the dead said they did not agree to the exhumations and now want the remains returned so that they can be reburied
South Africa’s Covid-19-related deaths have been comparatively lower than the rest of the world. But municipalities are preparing for the worst
The news of Gauteng’s grave site preparations raised alarm about the expected number of Covid-19-related deaths in the province
ArcelorMittal, charged with toxic air and water pollution, seems to have bulldozed through graves to create a perimeter fence
‘Where homesteads once stood now roams towering machinery, earth-moving monsters that have reduced the walls of Maremane to rubble’
This week the Mail & Guardian is proud to publish a story that is a continuation of a new, specialised reporting genre,
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 ministry will attempt to exhume the remains of more than eighty political prisoners who were hanged at the facility during apartheid.
Sarah Evans updates us on the latest in the Mandla Mandela saga, including the possibility of Madiba’s grandson being relieved of his chieftaincy.
Technology is about to give Austrian gravestones the potential to speak across time by showing pictures and biographies of the people buried below.