The growing trend of politicians "rallying" at funerals is a worry for churches, the Moerane Commission of Inquiry heard on Thursday.
"Lately, funerals have become like rallies. That is concern to us as clergy. There is no reason to use that platform for that. People have come to mourn with that family, to pass along their sympathies. It should not become political," KwaZulu-Natal Regional Christian Church (KZNRCC) Reverend Sonto Thusi said.
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