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Broodie Funeral Parlour, which conducted the funerals of rapper AKA and former minister Tito Mboweni, has won top honours at South Africa's first-ever Funeral Business Awards, leaving many South Africans shocked that such awards even exist.
A malfunctioning furnace door at the Mountain Rise Crematorium forced a family to postpone their loved one's cremation.
In June last year, Dudu Kubisi was killed in a car crash. Her body was taken to a state mortuary and later handed to the wrong family for burial.
In a mix-up that left the grieving family outraged, Icebolethu funeral service’s blunder turned a day of mourning into one of frustration and disappointing.
While intended to cover the costs of a funeral, these policies are also used to provide for anything that life cover would normally cater for.
A Durban family has expressed their appreciation to the community who helped in the search for missing man, Leo Govender.
The families of dead soldiers continue to bear the brunt of underperformance by the Department of Military Veterans as they have to wait for at least 30 days before funds are released so they can bury their loved ones.
A 58-year-old Gauteng funeral home manager has been found guilty of forgery and uttering after she lied to a mother about who embalmed her son before his burial.
President Ramaphosa also highlighted the recent loss of many stalwart comrades and their significant roles in the struggle for liberation and the subsequent journey toward democracy.
President Cyril Ramaphosa, former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, international ambassadors and many other ANC struggle stalwarts have gathered at the Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg to bid farewell to Aziz Pahad.
President Cyril Ramaphosa granted the struggle stalwart a special official funeral category 2, which would include elements of police ceremonial honours.
Police have warned that while traditional Zulu spears and shields for amabutho would be allowed, there was a strictly no firearms allowed policy in place at Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s funeral.
The second incinerator at the Maitland Crematorium was closed in April.
Wilson Chavis, 48, opened fire at Washington National Cemetery after confronting two people affiliated with another funeral company, police said.
Gauteng pastor Siva Moodley has been buried, nearly 600 days after he died from an illness.
A Cape Town family is still reeling in shock and explained the disgust at the services of a local undertaker.
“If there are any plans or any hopes of burying this weekend, consider postponing them,” undertakers urge, as the national strike threatens to seriously impact all state departments, especially Home Affairs, Transport, and Border Control.
While industry regulations require all funeral parlours that have mortuaries on their premises to have a backup generator, it has become increasingly expensive to keep generators running.
A local funeral home has once again turned heads, this time with its modified Rolls Royce Ghost, modified with gull wings
The body of a late Gauteng pastor, Siva Moodley, that has been lying for a year at a mortuary in Fourways, Johannesburg, may pose a health risk, according to inside sources.
Residents of Beira city in the central Mozambican province of Sofala have called for the protection of cemeteries there amid reports of graves being vandalised.