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Undertakers vow to continue disruptions at Home Affairs Updated Nomfundo Ngcobo Share this: Operations at some Home Affairs branches, including in KwaZulu-Natal, have been disrupted as a protest by some funeral practitioners continues. Coffin at funeral / iStock Undertakers, under the banner of the Unification Task Team, want the department to amend regulations to allow them to register deaths on behalf of families. They delivered a list of demands to the department's head office in Pretoria on Tuesday.  UTT spokesperson Muzi Hlengwa says they want permanent permits that will allow them to...

The Department of Home Affairs says it has obtained a court interdict against undertakers' Unification Task Team (UTT).

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 under...

The interdict comes as funeral parlours under the banner of the Unification Task Team have vowed to intensify their protests on Wednesday.

Funeral undertakers have threatened to intensify their protest action by bringing Home Affairs offices to a standstill across SA.