SA teacher who died in China to be buried on Saturday after remains finally arrived back home

[Grant]

The 27-year-old South African teacher who died in China will be laid to rest in Mossel Bay in the Western Cape on Saturday.

Lusanda Sixaxeni died at a Beijing hospital in September, leaving her family in a major dilemma to scrape together about R400 000 to repatriate her body back home. She had been working as an English teacher in China for the last three years.

Chinese authorities were set to cremate Sixaxeni's remains, which is against the family's beliefs and wishes. South Africans opened their hearts and purses to assist Sixaxeni's mother, Nomonde Sixaxeni, in bringing the body back home as the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) made it clear that it did not pay for the repatriation of South African citizens. Ordinary South Africans, Africans from other countries, small businesses, the taxi industry, car wash businesses, supermarkets and even a radio station made donations, Mandisi revealed.

SA teacher who died in China to be buried on Saturday after remains finally arrived back home | News24

The 27-year-old South African teacher who died in China will be laid to rest in Mossel Bay in the Western Cape on Saturday. Ordinary South Africans, Africans from other countries, small businesses, the taxi industry, supermarkets and a radio station made donations to ensure that her body arrived...

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[wbot]

R400 000? Damn

 

[1337]

fr thats a crazy fee. i wonder what its broken up into

 

[Grant]

R400 000? Damn

Repatriation of human bodies is not a cheap undertaking.

 

[Grant]

fr thats a crazy fee. i wonder what its broken up into

The big ones:

Undertakers fees (sending & receiving).
Lots of certificates are needed (infectious disease etc).
Refrigeration (sending & receiving)
Embalming.
Sealing & secure coffin - not any old coffin can be used.
Air and road transport.

 

[Ponderer]

Repatriation of human bodies is not a cheap undertaking.

I see what you did there.

 

[TheChamp]

I am relieved for her family, well done to all those who donated.