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FORGOTTEN IN THE GROUND: How Cape Town families discovered their loved ones in paupers’ graves
dailymaverick.co.za
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Paupers’ graves are meant for the forgotten. But what happens when the people buried there were never forgotten at all? In Cape Town, an undertaker’s alleged fraud has exposed a failure of the systems meant to protect the dead — and devastated those left behind.
Paupers’ graves are meant for the forgotten. But what happens when the people buried there were never forgotten at all? In Cape Town, an undertaker’s alleged fraud has exposed a failure of the systems meant to protect the dead — and devastated those left behind.
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