Heritage Cases

Mosaic Funeral Group will be responsible for the handling and reburial of the exhumed human remains. The date of death for two graves are 1895 and 1888 respectively and for the other grave, the date of death is unknown and are therefore older than 60 years as stated in the National Heritage Resources Act (Act 25 of 1999). • GY01 (Approximately 6 graves) located at GPS Coordinates: -26.136045⁰; 29.861075⁰ This burial ground contains 3 graves and 3 features that could possibly be graves but need to be test excavated to confirm the presence of graves. The graves will be relocated to the cemetery as requested by the families. If the three features are confirmed graves after the test excavation they will be relocated to the closest municipal cemetery. The burial ground will be impacted by the expansion of coal mining by the Welgemeend Coal Mine. We have conducted a process of stakeholder engagement to identify buried individuals and to obtain permission for exhumation and re-interment from the affected families, communities and other bona fide interested and affected parties. This process commenced on Thursday, 10 October 2018 with the erection of bilingual (English and isiZulu) site notices at the burial ground. Bilingual (English and isiZulu) newspaper notices were published in the Daily Sun on 1 November 2018 and in the Mpumalanga News on 1 and 8 November 2018 respectively.