Funeral industry sees a huge increase for services

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In the first two weeks of this month, one funeral parlour saw an increase of more than 70 % in burials and a 44 % increase in December compared to the same time last year.

Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced this week that some services would be suspended at offices nationwide after 266 offices had to close since the beginning of the lockdown in March due to staff testing positive for Covid-19.

“Funeral undertakers and families registering deaths use a separate queue and attend a dedicated front office counter. In adherence to the Disaster Management Act regulations, only 50% of floor capacity may be occupied,” said Hlabane.Since Wednesday, the department extended operating hours, to prioritise birth and death registrations and also enabled death registrations to be done at hospitals which had Home Affairs facilities.

"These are trying times ... None of our staff members have died due to Covid-19, However, they work in a dangerous environment," van der Westhuizen said. He added that while staff used to work an eight hour shift five days a week under"normal circumstances", they now had to implement a staggered shifts, six to seven days a week, with separate teams working night shift and most weekends.

He said the association was experiencing a shortage of coffins and had to plead with customers to postpone burials while they were trying to source these.

 

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