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Bodies sold for R150 at Bara

Aug 15, 2012 | Vusi Xaba | 29 comments

FOR R50, unscrupulous undertakers can buy a list of all the patients who died at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital the night before.

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Sun May 19 06:22:55 SAST 2013 ::
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Aug 15, 2012

NOCTORIUS

what have we become people,dats sick mxm
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Aug 15, 2012

Ma-7

This is not an isolated incident,it's a common practise in this industry.
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Aug 15, 2012

Mthokxxx

Its not only in Soweto. This hpns everywhere in SA and its been long time this bn hpng.
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Aug 15, 2012

januswanus

Where is the buntu we told the International community that we have and practice.
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Aug 15, 2012

Lord-Have-Mercy

Lord Have Mercy

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Aug 15, 2012

Dlamza

Management should fire those who are involved. What they are doing is inhuman, truth be told!
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Aug 15, 2012

Mdav

More promised to investigate "the matter". She said she did not have knowledge of the meeting the undertakers' association claimed it had been trying to secure.
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What can you expect from Baragwanath, Soweto? There is no corruption there, it's normal. More, nurses, doctors, securities, patients you name them. Same Bull!

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Aug 15, 2012

Sokheshe1905

"Capitalism is very dynamic. It is a fighting system. Each capitalist enterprise survives by successfully fighting other capitalist enterprises." Julius Nyerere
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Aug 15, 2012

madamx

ya neh!
ba boletse bare mokabelo o everywhere.
Shame on them...
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Aug 15, 2012

Reyataz

Well, if we keep voting corrupt scum into office to loot the state coffers, what's the ordinary man supposed to do to also afford a Range Rover and single malt whiskey? Malema became a multimillionaire by controlling all tenders in Limpopo whilst school kids never got text books. Ah, a vote for the ANC!
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Aug 15, 2012

swona

understand death is a good business lately, a family wants me to buy a cold room and cars so we can start an undertaker business, crippy!
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Aug 15, 2012

Galfrend

Crazy! ubuntu? gosh !!!
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Aug 15, 2012

jnrb

@Sokheshe1905
The problem with Capitalism is that wealth is so Unevenly distributed. The problem with (Julius Nyrere’s) socialism is that Poverty is so Evenly distributed. “Nyerere left Tanzania as one of the poorest, least developed, and most foreign aid-dependent countries in the world.” See Skinner, Annabel (2005). Tanzania & Zanzibar. New Holland Publishers. pp. 19. ISBN 1-86011-216-1.

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Aug 15, 2012

Jujubaby

Well it is happening More..... My granny died on a Thursday around 10pm, we received a call a few minutes later. On Friday morning we woke up to a banging on the gate. About 3 funeral undertakers came to our house and they tried so hard to convince my mom to give them burial rights in the meantime we had our won Funeral parlours. So wake up More.............
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Aug 15, 2012

mmutlanyana

YOu would be suprise to find that even nurses OR doctor ba nale kabelo mo tabeng ena, cause batho they die like its coming out of fashion. Every week ends we bury our loved ones, people they have decided to bury even during the week.
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Aug 15, 2012

WarrenG

Do they still have anymore for sale?
I could use one or 2 in my pathophysiology, embryology and histology studies.
Thats a great price!
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Aug 15, 2012

Lehido

This is sickening....sies maan
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Aug 15, 2012

Predikant

Shame on those public servants & funeral undertakers. they have reduced those hospitals more or less into Scrap Yards. Corpses have become a commodity, I'm really gutted by these actions. Don't know if I should tear my shirt into 2 pieces & yell out the window. the system is more into disarray if not chaos. Donner se wette se bliksem.
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Aug 15, 2012

Sokheshe1905

@ jnrb On another platform we can talk about Nyerere qualities as a leader and different economic systems. The enterprise should be pro active in the market (under current economic system) in order for it to survive. It's part of business networking. It is everywhere; your cell phone company do sell your contact details to other companies so that they can sell their product and services to you. Morality and capitalism is like oil and water.
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Aug 15, 2012

Mbelewolwazi

The 21st of December 2012 is fast approaching people. What if something really happens, are you ready to be ghosts?
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Aug 15, 2012

GigiMavalani

Thats Afrika-Dzonga for you, a mere R150. The spirit of Vumunhu has reach extinction stage. People in SA can do anything for money. They are so brutal, selfish, immoral, barbaric, unhuman, satanic, develish, stupid, etc
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Aug 15, 2012

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe

Gauteng people with money bona hee!
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Aug 15, 2012

Mokgaditse

@Mthokxxx
Chief don't feel offended if you are coming from oweto, you are not the one who is doing it, the people who report this saw it happening in Soweto. When you say it is not Soweto alone report the other people who are doing it. i guess Sowetan will investigate and come with the story. People always look for oppotunities and capitalise, unfortunatly in this case is on grieving people. This is not ayoba.
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Aug 15, 2012

legendarybenedictoholic

people will sell anything for money i guess
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Aug 15, 2012

Papage

This makes me sick and I would like to call on all the people in Soweto to not take our sick family members to Bara, let us use Lesedi or Lenmed, there is that other hospital in Dopsy, please avoid Bara if you can, until they sort their mess.
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Aug 16, 2012

Tubetsiii

mmmmmhhhhuuuuuuuu
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Aug 16, 2012

Senyobinyobi


Management should fire those who are involved. What they are doing is inhuman, truth be told!
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management is also involved, so who should fire management.

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Aug 17, 2012

Gogogoi

shango likho fhela
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Aug 21, 2012

Jabusto

sick people praying us to die, i hate Bara
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