Msunduzi’s cemetery plan may already be dead in the water

Descendants of those buried in the cemetery have strongly opposed the development, and the real owners of the land are actually five churches

23 November 2022 - 21:15

Thousands of people including Voortrekker minister Erasmus Smit, Pietermaritzburg leader Solomon Dambuza, WW2 veterans and former mayors, may be turning in their graves, literally, after a new proposal by the Msunduzi municipality...

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