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Bara body sales: MEC must act on funeral industry

Aug 14, 2012 | Sowetan LIVE | 22 comments

'Shocking report in today's Sowetan newspaper reveals the sale of lists of corpses at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital to illegal funeral operators'

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Aug 14, 2012

somaartakeit

Nice one anc regime, you inspire even the dead to be corrupt.
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Aug 14, 2012

ndhandhazi

So when the market is dry people may be killed and sold.
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Aug 14, 2012

Limpopoist

Is these a news OR is command order (to do list for MEC)

Check all around south africa, next to every general (government)hospital there is a mutuary these business have been like these for so long.......
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Aug 14, 2012

somaartakeit

it wld also be interesting to see how much do these morgues donate to the anc, or whether they declare income tax as expected to all profit making organisations.
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Aug 14, 2012

MakgwebelakaKokoYaManoti!

Ha ho na mo-tho ya tsebileng ho etsa sehloho jwaloka mo-tho ya ileng a qala ho etsa ntho ena e mo na eo ho thweng ke chelete.
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Aug 14, 2012

MommaC

Jirrie, you can't even escape crime when you are dead!
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Aug 14, 2012

Papage

Now this answer our suspicious about Bara, people dont come out alive at Bara, they die there and the hospital does nothing to contact the family members, until you visit them and you find the bed empty, My dad passed on monday, but we oly got to know on Tuesday during visit time, what were they waiting for, to sell him to their people? Bara stinks
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Aug 14, 2012

JB$

OOOHHHHHHHHHHHH Modimo wa Khotso
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Aug 14, 2012

DrLifesgud

Jeeeeeeer,we are also not safe mos!!!!!!
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Aug 14, 2012

BRA-MAFUTHA

@Papage my condolences to you and your family may u receive strength during this time of losing a loved one, I do share my sentiments with you broer just last week my cousin was knocked down by a car and was rushed to that hospital in a stable condition but on our arrival to visit him we were told that his just passed away.......really sad indeed
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Aug 14, 2012

BlackSeed

This is very simple to resolve; just enact a LAW that will redirect funeral expenses to both the seller and buyer since they informally volunteered; do the same to these vampires from the Towing industry.

Just sentence them to a long term free funeral service for the family and friends of the deceased until the lineage is depleted. If you do that, you’ll never report on this again because they’ll close shop.

If you make the LAW ambiguous, you open it to discussions. This is very easy to apply and will also assist the community of Soweto into receiving free funeral services.


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Aug 14, 2012

ntyantya

They've been doing this for a long time. My uncle passed away in 2006 and Bara didn't even bother to call us instead an undertaker came and told us Friday morning that my uncle passed away. After they left another 3 undertakers came and we were pissed off cause my uncle had a burial society which works hand in hand with their own undertaker.
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Aug 14, 2012

Lesoba-Le-Boya

Ho rekiswa ditopo jwale...Banna...
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Aug 14, 2012

Kgaoza606

Mzansi mara, not even the dead are safe...
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Aug 14, 2012

candilious

Hehehehhe is waar loot all the way till death we shall get rich quick
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Aug 14, 2012

Mwelase

@ papage you are the Hero Broer, indeed that is now clicking to my mind of cause the rise of death at Hani/Natalspruit its because of this sale of our ancestors. Iyokhonjwa i South Africa isihambile ukungcola nenkohlakalo edalwa uhulumeni wethu esamvotela.
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Aug 14, 2012

tpaz

@Blackseed, I like your thinking.

Laws should protect us and punish the offenders. Not oppress us and make other people wealthy at the expense of others
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Aug 14, 2012

Punkies

Sick sick sick world we living in. No respect for the dead..
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Aug 14, 2012

NQUTHU

This has nothing to do with the ANC, because it has been there even during the old regime, morgues used to have agents who were sitting near the morgue doors for any coming deadbody.Before the security guy as they were the ones sent to report the death to the family the agents would be the first to tell the family asking them if they have any insurance for the deceased. So, this DA guy must not make this as something that is only happening in this regime. Those who reported this incident are sour because the business competition is very high.
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Aug 14, 2012

knobkirrie

Papage- We had our differences in the past, but let me take this opportunity to pass my and my family's condolences during this difficult time in coming to terms with your loss. Time is a healer.

I have to say SA has surpassed itself this time, first they were selling second hand coffins and now they are selling carcasses?? Wow!! I thought I heard and seen it all. I am embarrassed to be South African at this juncture
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Aug 14, 2012

Tango

somaartakeit
Nice one anc regime, you inspire even the dead to be corrupt.

Everywhere there is SMOGOL, even in your Western Cape
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Aug 14, 2012

yomonnaka

same as private clinics such as Lesedi Clinic which happens to be next to Bara,my dad went for a spinal operation last year in october, he was sent to stepdown rehabilitation at Clayton House in Yeoville before de operation was healed, he was sent back wehre he was slowly loosing weight, we took him home on the 25th December for holidays, wen we send him back on the 2nd of January he was far better than at de hospital, he even told us dat we shud just give him 2-3 weeks den he will be totally healed and cumin home, guess wat we lost him on the 6th January 2012, and de Dr report says he had Kidney Failure, Heart Attack and Respiratory sumthing(mediacl terms), de day he passed away my brother had to go call de doctor from his Consulting room to have a look at my dad becos the nurses just stood there and said there is nothing they can do, but wait for the doctor,


Hospitals are not safe anymore


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