Law: South Africa

Rouget, M-L. 2023

‘Grave concerns: the state of public cemetery records management in South Africa’, Archives and Records, 44:1, 73-94.

Skosana. D. 2021

‘Mining, graves sites and dispossession in Mpumalanga’’, in W. Beinart, R. Kingwill & G. Capps (eds) Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa: Contested Histories and Current Struggles, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 104-120.

Skosana. D. 2017

‘Protecting the dead: the South African National Heritage Resources Act in context’, in M. Christian Green, R. Hackett, L. Hansen & F. Venter (eds) Religious Pluralism, Heritage and Social Development, Stellenbosch: Sun MeDIA, 315-331.

Slabbert, M. 2016

‘Burial or cremation – who decides?’, De Jure Law Journal, 49:2, 230-241.

Slabbert, M. 2020

‘The law and an ancestral request for exhumation’, Obiter, 41:4, 926-933.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract