eThekwini municipality not ready for higher Covid-19 death toll
Durban - AS the death toll of Covid-19 is expected to rise in the next few months as the country begins to open, eThekwini municipality has confirmed a dire shortage of burial space.
He said processes were under way to acquire more land for burial space to the north, west and south of the city. “There is land which was identified years ago. The site in Verulam is 840hectares in size and that would give us more than 100 years’ worth of space for burials. He added that many of the city’s cemeteries remained closed. “Very few cemeteries are operational and all of them are recycled graves, changing over every 10 years. Not only Durban is suffering, but the whole of KZN. The municipality needs to urgently prioritise land for burials,” said Hlengwa, adding that another unaddressed problem was that Mobeni Heights Crematorium had not been functioning for more than three years.
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