{"id":1265791,"date":"2022-12-16T00:51:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T00:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/zimbabwe-to-pass-law-to-make-it-compulsory-for-married-couples-to-be-buried-in-one-grave\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T00:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T00:51:07","slug":"zimbabwe-to-pass-law-to-make-it-compulsory-for-married-couples-to-be-buried-in-one-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/zimbabwe-to-pass-law-to-make-it-compulsory-for-married-couples-to-be-buried-in-one-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe To Pass Law To Make It Compulsory For Married Couples To Be Buried In One Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Councillors in Bulawayo City, Zimbabwe, are reportedly trying to pass a law which would make it\u00a0mandatory for married couples to be buried\u00a0in one grave.<\/p>\n

Zimlive reported that the lawmakers began pushing for the law after\u00a0two major cemeteries, West Park and Hyde Park in the\u00a0country\u2019s second-largest city, got filled up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The councillors are also proposing that residents consider cremating their dead\u00a0relatives.<\/p>\n

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Councillor Sikhululekile Moyo who\u00a0noted that the high death rate\u00a0being experienced has increased the demand for burial space, said;\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA single grave should have more than one burial. For effective cremation, private players should be involved.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bulawayo\u2019s biggest cemetery, West Park, was closed in 2016 after running out of burial space but was later reopened by the local authority targeting reserved land.\u00a0The cemetery was decommissioned for the second time in 2019 as it had run out of burial space.<\/p>\n

Another lawmaker, Councillor Sinikiwe Mutanda\u00a0revealed that the city has already approved double burials but not on a\u00a0mandatory basis.<\/p>\n

Mutanda said;\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOn an ordinary grave, double intermation was allowed after a period of 10 years and above.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– – Councillors in Bulawayo City, Zimbabwe, are reportedly trying to pass a law which would make it\u00a0mandatory for married couples to be buried\u00a0in one grave. Zimlive reported that the lawmakers began pushing for the law after\u00a0two major cemeteries, West Park and Hyde Park in the\u00a0country\u2019s second-largest city, got filled up.\u00a0 The councillors are also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10213,8117,3777,1212,1498,1027,2586,12505],"class_list":["post-1265791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-buried","tag-compulsory","tag-couples","tag-grave","tag-law","tag-married","tag-pass","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}