Gauteng Premier should have stepped in early to alleviate mortuary crisis
15 June 2017
The Gauteng Provincial Government needs to be held accountable for its terrible mismanagement of the week-long strike at state mortuaries that has caused extreme trauma to families unable to bury their loved ones.
Amongst the heart-tending stories is that of Mrs Colleen Duister who has been trying to bury her 3-year-old daughter whose body has not been released from the Germiston mortuary.
I know of family from foreign countries who are in the country for a limited period of time trying to get the bodies of relatives for burial in their home country.
There has been extra anguish in the Muslim and Jewish communities who are required to bury bodies on the same day.