{"id":4988,"date":"2019-08-30T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T06:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"designer-death-south-africa-struggles-to-bury-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/30\/designer-death-south-africa-struggles-to-bury-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Death? South Africa Struggles to Bury Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>By Kim Harrisberg <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If death is the great equalizer, South Africa&#8217;s designer graveyards look like one of the best ends on offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With hot tea, wifi and soft sofas &#8211; not to mention native birds and a rippling dam &#8211; a new breed of luxury cemetery is reinforcing divides between Johannesburg&#8217;s haves and have-nots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Memorial Park cemetery in Soweto, South Africa&#8217;s biggest township, is one of five cemeteries owned by listed company Calgro M3, whose fortunes are tied to land and housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plush cemeteries they have added to their portfolio of houses and retirement homes have sharply divided opinion: lauded as a wise investment by some, derided as elitist by others&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20190829004544-c8cgz\/\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kim Harrisberg If death is the great equalizer, South Africa&#8217;s designer graveyards look like one of the best ends on offer. With hot tea, wifi and soft sofas &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}