Widow’s 14 year battle with in-laws over where husband’s body should be buried

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A family feud that has gone on for 14 years regarding where a body should be buried ended in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria.

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At the same time, she said, she also had sleepless nights due to his “complaints” of not resting in peace. Maepa said the deceased was buried in their ancestral place where he belonged, and where he wanted to be. The judge said customary law ran like a golden thread through this dispute and the municipal officer who granted the permission to exhume the body should have first listened to all sides of the argument.

 

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