Mother fights for right to bury her son

PIETERMARITZBURG - A Pietermaritzburg mother has turned to the courts to challenge the burial of her son without her knowledge.

Bathobile Hlela is fighting for the right to bury her 20-year-old son at her homestead.

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She alleges her son’s father buried the young man in secret last Sunday, despite a court interdict against it.

But, the family says they buried the young man in line with customs and not in defiance of the court order.

  • eNCA's Zanele Buthelezi has more.

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