Nobuhle Bhengu's ashes will be returned to SA
DURBAN - The body of a Durban woman, who died while working in the Bahamas, will not be repatriated to South Africa. Instead, she will be cremated and her ashes brought back to her family. Umlazi resident, Nobuhle Bhengu, 29, who worked on a MSC cruise liner, died in February, in a hospital in the Bahamas.
The matter was escalated to South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Co-operation , which was negotiating with officials in the Bahamas.
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