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After three weeks in unknown grave, gogo is
Buried at last Grief-stricken family members sighed with relief after the body was exhumed.
Grave diggers about to retrieve the body of gogo Mutavhatsindi, who was buried for almost two weeks after a mortuary mix-up. By Elmon Tshikhudo
Gogo Alidzulwi Mutavhatsindi.
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The long, frustrating and traumatic wait for the Mutavhatsindi family to bury their beloved gogo, Alidzulwi Mutavhatsindi, whose body has been missing and buried by another family for more than three weeks, finally came to an end over the weekend. Mutavhatsindi (82) of Masakona village in the Vuwani area was supposed to have been buried a fortnight ago, but could not as a result of a body mix-up at the mortuary where her body was kept. The family underwent a lot of pain and financial
loss in trying to find the missing body. They had to go to different villages with the body of an unknown gogo, who the undertaker said was their relative, trying to locate the family of the old woman. They were finally able to connect with the family of the dead woman, who indicated that the dead woman was indeed their relative and that it implied that they had buried the wrong body. The two families thought it would be a simple procedure to exhume the other body and to bury the right person. That was not to be as they had to go through the courts and use lawyers to apply
for orders for them. On Thursday last week, the two families sighed with relief when the court granted the order to exhume. On Friday morning, the two families gathered at the local graveyard at Ha-Raliphaswa in the Nzhelele area where the body had been buried. Grief-stricken as they were, they had to wait while undertakers exhumed the body. It was put in a hearse and taken to the mortuary, where it was washed before being taken to Masakona for burial. The burial poured salt into wounds which had not had a chance to begin healing. - Continues on p2
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