Unrelenting load shedding, coupled with a heatwave across parts of South Africa are causing bodies to decay much faster at funeral parlours, according to an industry body.Unrelenting load shedding coupled with a heatwave across parts of South Africa are causing bodies to decay much faster at funeral parlours, an industry body has warned.
The South African Funeral Practitioners Association’s national secretary-general Vuyisile Mabindisa urged people to bury their loved ones within four days of their death to ease pressure on funeral parlours, and to ensure that they are buried with minimal decay. "The industry is seeing a large number of putrefied bodies being buried. Burying one’s kin within four days, or less, is cost-effective and prevents families from seeing their departed ones in a poor state of decomposition," Mabindisa said in a statement on Tuesday.
South Africa experienced over 200 days of load shedding in 2022, while every day of 2023 has seen load shedding, including six days of Stage 6. Mabindisa said the current heatwave was causing the rate of decomposition to skyrocket. According the SA Weather Service, parts of KwaZulu-Natal, including Pietermaritzburg, are expected to approach a high of nearly 40 degrees Celsius on Tuesday.
_Business This article actually traumatises me, there is no respect even for the dead, this ineptitude that rules over us has stripped every South African dead or alive of their dignity. I hope Hell is real.
_Business Back in 1999, my grandmother lay in a morgue for a week in Eshowe (it's always Hot there) with no electricity and a dead guy with an axe in his head on top of her. The smell was vicious, it took days to get that out my nose,and I will never unsee it. This is not a new thing.
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