Farm worker's burial tip of the iceberg?

Somewhere in the last half of 2006, a farm worker in the western sand veldts - the area that is otherwise known to Bangwato cattle barons as "ko dipolasing tsa methabeng" - a man, whose brawn mattered more than his dignity, died and his body was interred not in a graveyard as it is customary, not even on the farm his cracked hands toiled, but in a hole dug in no-man's land between farms and a cordon fence that stretches from Dibete up to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR).

"No one deserves to be buried like a dog. All of us deserve a decent funeral. Why was he buried on pathways and not in a graveyard like everyone else? Obviously, it cannot be because of costs, because the council takes care of funeral packages of those without the means through the destitute programme. The council could have surely provided a coffin and a hearse for transportation, " said area councillor Mogalakwe Mogalakwe.