Vusumuzi Dube — Bulawayo City Council is pushing for all children who die aged 10-years and below to be cremated, as the city faces a burial space crisis.
This comes amid revelations that the Pumula South burial site, which was recently gazetted by Government, is unsuitable for adult burials as the underground soil was largely rocky, raising speculation that the local authority did not conduct any feasibility study at the site.
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