Crematorium woes mount

FRUSTRATED ratepayers, political leaders and funeral directors have called on eThekwini Municipality to once again fix the Mobeni Heights Crematorium.

After numerous incidents, they have questioned the municipality’s ability to effectively run the facility.

For more than a decade, the furnaces at the crematorium lay idle. In 2019, the Office of the Public Protector wrote to the municipality asking that it address the issues at the crematorium.

The public protector instructed the city to install a new furnace before 2020.

In April last