Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero.
JOHANNESBURG executive mayor Dada Morero has called on Black people to learn to cremate their dead instead of burying them: “The city is running out of burial space,” he told an audience at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital this week.
Morero said in Soweto alone, “1000 people are buried each month”. He decried lack of adaptation by Black people who are still beholden to culture and tradition.
He said even the Bible teaches us that when a person dies, the body perishes. He said Black people must grow to appreciate that it is the spirit that matters the most and not the body.
He said ancestors will not turn against people who choose to cremate their dead. The ancestors will understand, he assured the audience.
