Joburg mayor Dada Morero urged residents to consider cremation as an alternative to being buried because the city is running out of burial space and many cemeteries are at capacity.
We must embrace innovation multiple burials in family graves, cremation, mausoleums and green burials that reduce our ecological impact. These solutions are vital if we are to ensure dignity in death for future generations, he said.
Land alone will not solve our problem. I appeal to funeral homes and residents to respect the sanctity of a cemetery after a burial and to revere our dead. Visit family graves, reinstate headstones and take advantage of the low-cost option to bury loved ones in the same family-held grave.