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Kagiso graveyard in ruins, families left in the lurch

Natural Disaster

Concerns have been raised by residents of Kagiso over a section of their cemetery that is collapsing.

Upon visiting the site, the Sunday Independent team saw some tombstones were tilted and on the brink of collapse, while other graves were cracked and submerged in water.

This, the residents are told, is due to the flow of underground water and nothing can be done about it.

When Mpho Mogwasi from the west rand township buried her mother in 2012, she didn’t think she would have to reinforce the grave 10 years later, as it fell into the early

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