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Owners of funeral parlours say they are struggling to keep their businesses afloat as the country’s energy crisis deepens. They say they are battling to keep bodies from decaying. loadshedding

[File Image]: An undertaker of Sopema Funerals changes into his suit before transporting the body of a deceased person ahead of the funeral service.[File Image]: An undertaker of Sopema Funerals changes into his suit before transporting the body of a deceased person ahead of the funeral service.

Owners of funeral parlours say they are struggling to keep their businesses afloat as the country’s energy crisis deepens.To ensure the preservation of human remains, cold storage facilities need to be kept at temperatures of below minus five degrees Celsius. As Eskom’s rolling blackouts continue, this is becoming extremely difficult and expensive for owners of funeral parlours.

National Funeral Practitioners’ Association of South Africa spokesperson, Dududu Magano says, “Nobody is coming with a solution on how this can be solved. Eskom cannot assist us. Government does not have a solution and it has not looked at ways of how they can assist, particularly the ones with mortuaries, to be able to deal with these costs. They [costs] are rising constantly,” adds Magano.

The industry says power cuts pose a serious threat to the supply of chicken to restaurants and fast food outlets.

 

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Black people of South Africa (especially ANC supporters) will vote for ramaphosa for second term, don't know why🚮🚮🚮 but ramaphosa said he'd build a smart city, bullet trains ,etc, but instead he blessed us with rolling blackouts . ramaphosa is Garbage🤞🏽🚮loadsheddingstage6

So they die twice

Sabelo you are very right brother, can't we do as we have done with covid?Even the cost will be not that bad.

They must distribute the bodies between Eskom and the Union Building.

all because of the ANC

funie_nems

Go moerskont. Go hlakahlakane.

Most voted for ramaphosa

Let's learn from our Muslim brothers and sisters - bury in the quickest time. No need to prepare for elaborate high end events in the burial process - limousines & bikes. It serves no useful purpose. Covid came close to teaching us this common sense about death and burial.

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