This seems worlds apart from the "event" Mabuza was managing last week, when the wheels of the trailer came off, leaving the bodies of 16 adults and 26 stillborn babies stranded on one of Johannesburg's busiest highways. Joburg official Lungela Longwe said this showed "no respect to the deceased and their families".
Grave-digger Sthembiso Nkosi, at the cemetery where the paupers' burial would happen, told The Sowetan: "We can bury up to four adults in one grave."
No butterflies or doves or bagpipes here.
The provincial health department has promised to investigate how it came about that the bodies were overloaded on a trailer and transported in unhygienic conditions.
That's great, but there are an estimated 20000 illegal funeral parlour operators in South Africa, an industry that has no ombudsman and no code of conduct.
It's just that the bodies in their care had not spilt onto a highway, so clearly no investigation into their conduct is necessary.