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Home Affairs says it will ensure services not disrupted by undertakers protest The department has obtained a court interdict prohibiting protestors from intimidating staff and those visiting their offices. FILE: Undertakers under the banner, the Unification Task Team, want government to amend regulations so they can have the right to register deaths on behalf of bereaved families. Picture: 123rf.com
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JOHANNESBURG - The Department of Home Affairs on Wednesday said it had contingency plans in place to ensure its services were not disrupted by a protest by undertakers over death certificates.
The department has obtained a court interdict prohibiting protestors from intimidating staff and those visiting their offices.
Funeral undertakers vow to continue protest, set to defy interdict
By James Mahlokwane
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Pretoria - Funeral undertakers who clashed with the police during a protest outside the Department of Home Affairs in Pretoria CBD on Tuesday will defy the court interdict and resume picketing today.
They are unhappy with the department over numerous unsolved issues, including delays in the registration of death certificates.
The secretary-general of the Unification Task Team of the Funeral Industry, Kgomotso Langa, told the Pretoria News they intended to shut down the department’s offices again today.
She said: “We hear that the department obtained a court interdict preventing us from protesting. It was never served to us as the supposed correspondents.”