Unclaimed bodies rotting in mortuary limbo

Health departments blame police delays as more than 2,000 corpses pile up in morgues in just two provincesClose to 2,000 unclaimed and unidentified bodies are piling up in the over-stretched state mortuaries of just two provinces — KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng — partly because of police delays and backlogs in DNA testing. ..From World War 1 to present-day cosmopolitan South Africa and beyond, the Sunday Times has been a pillar in covering the stories that matter to you.

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