When Gregory Burrell's wife passed away almost two years ago, 600 people attended her funeral. Now, during a pandemic that continues to surge in the US, Burrell's funeral home requires an employee to ...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - African leaders past and present gathered in Namibia on Saturday to bury the country's "founding father" Sam Nujoma, who challenged colonialism and a military occupation by South ...

EAST LONDON, South Africa (AP) — The deaths of 21 teenagers in a nightclub tragedy is a crime and South African officials must increase steps to prevent alcohol from being illegally sold to youths, ...

An undertaker of Sopema Funerals changes into his suit before transporting the body of a deceased person ahead of the funeral service in Soweto, south-west of Johannesburg, South Africa. Reuters ...

EAST LONDON, South Africa — More than a thousand grieving family and community members are attending the funeral in South Africa's East London for 21 teenagers who died in a mysterious tragedy at a ...

The Digital Library of Georgia recently added more than 3,000 African American funeral home programs from Atlanta and throughout the Southeast to its vast collection of online sources. The programs ...

Undertakers clad in canary-yellow protective suits lowered the coffin into the cold soil as a mechanical digger waited nearby to smother the grave. They were barred from tossing a handful of soil or a ...

A mourner touches the coffin of Archbishop Desmond Tutu during his funeral at the St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa on Jan. 1, 2022. AP CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A funeral service is ...

All Sarah Moloko wanted after her 22-year-old daughter died in a fiery car crash was to lovingly lay her to rest. But her funeral scheme allegedly defrauded her of R7,000. Her story is one of several ...