More than R7.7million was spent on replacing the cremators at the Mountain Rise Crematorium in Pietermaritzburg. DailyNewsSA
Durban - More than R7.7million was spent on replacing the cremators at the Mountain Rise Crematorium in Pietermaritzburg, but the Hindu community and others wanting to use the facility still find themselves using crematoria in Durban and Port Shepstone.A 2014 investigation by the Msunduzi Municipality’s Internal Audit Unit found several problems with the crematorium and the new equipment.
Several subsequent breakdowns led to the municipality contracting engineering consultancy Royal HaskoningDHV to assess the facility. The assessment was attached as Annexure “B” of the report and revealed that the new machines overheated, melting electric cables, while steel pillars bowed and cracked. The loading doors jammed during operation and the cremation process took longer than expected.
“We have been assured, after an inspection in loco by the leadership of the city, that a plan will be put in place to address our concerns and ensure that the crematoriums are functional and usable, while the municipality sources funding to replace the broken cremators,” said advocate Ranjiv Nirghin, president of the Midlands Hindu Society and chairperson of the MCCCC community.
“Services at the facility are not the best and all sorts of excuses are given when it stalls,” Jadoo said. Jadoo added that the municipality had installed incinerators and was trying to get them to do the job of cremators. He said incinerators were used to completely destroy waste, including tissue waste from medical facilities, and produced a different result from cremators.
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