How Cape Town families discovered their loved ones in paupers’ graves
Daily Maverick | 11.02.2026 05:56
In a windblown, arid cemetery outside Kuils River lies a grave – although it can barely be identified as such. There is no headstone and no base. Uneven patches of straw are strewn upon sand. The only indication that a person is buried here is a small white concrete block, on which someone has painted the grave plot number and the words “Tersia Belinda Murray”.
