Bakgatla protest new Burial rules

While the council authorities say the new bye-law, gazetted on March 4, 2016 was passed in 2008 after extensive consultation, the tribal administration authorities, however, insist it is not the case.

Bakgatla tribal administration representative, Kgosi Segale Linchwe said he knows nothing about the cemetery bye-law. “I do not know anything about such laws.  It is news to me and I don’t think anybody can make such laws without consulting Bogosi,” Segale told The Monitor.