The family of one
Teregana Dyala, a grandmother who had already died, has been thrown into
commotion after her dead body vanished.
According to Daily Sun
SA, the family of Teregana planned a dignified funeral for Saturday.
However what was supposed to be a solemn occasion turned into a
disaster.
The family was
devastated when the undertakers sent the wrong body not once, but twice.
Eventually the family
went looking for her body at funeral parlous in neighbouring kasis, but the
body was nowhere to be found.
Daily Sun reports that
the situation almost got out of control when mourners at the funeral of the
75-year-old from Wentzel Park in Alexandria, near Port Alfred in the Eastern
Cape, South Africa, tried to bliksem the hearse driver, who had asked for help
to push his run-down vehicle.
Luckily, the family
intervened and calmed the situation.
Teregana’s son,
Mabhaso (37) told Daily Sun: “At 8am a skorokoro hearse arrived from
the undertaker, Shweme and Shweme, with the wrong body. We sent it back to
Grahamstown to fetch our mum. We waited hours but when it finally came back,
the body in the coffin still didn’t belong to my mother.
“We got the cops to
escort us to another funeral parlour to check if the body was there. We also
searched the offices of the undertaker in Grahamstown, with no success.
“We went to the
Grahamstown cop shop to lay a charge but cops refused to open a case, claiming
it was a civil matter.”
Zukiswa Galela, the
Shweme and Shweme supervisor in Grahamstown, cried when she was confronted by
the family. “This is the body that was delivered to us from the
hospital mortuary.”
Shweme and Shweme
manager, Monde Hedashe, said: “We are confused because according to our
Grahamstown office, this is the body identified by the gogo’s son.
“The family must go
back to the Port Alfred mortuary and check for her body. They know who their
family member is, not us.”
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