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.”
UNDERTAKERS VOW TO SHUT DOWN HOME AFFAIRS Sun Reporter Photo: Raymond Morare.
UNDERTAKERS affiliated to the Unification Task Team of the Funeral Industry (UTT) have threatened to shut down the offices of Home Affairs nationwide.
UTT made the threats on Tuesday, 11 May saying if all theirs demands were not met they’d go ahead with their threat on Wednesday, 12 May.
Among their grievances was that funeral parlours should be allowed to rent storage space from each other and that the red tape is sorted out to help start-up parlours succeed.
The undertakers want certificates of competence not to form part of the designation number training and examination requirements.