Descendants of those in the graves that lie in the way of the road have until April 15th to register for exhumation, and until May 31st to arrange a private disinterment.
In cities including Durban and Cape Town authorities are advocating "secondary burials", where the deceased are laid to rest above another family member, or even "reduction burials", involving the disinterment of remains after no fewer than 30 years and reburial in a smaller casket to create space.
The international attention surrounding the disinterment of Cervantes's remains is likely to have unexpected side effects.
Precisely because it doesn't stand out, because it remains buried in the dust of the archives, it seems worthy of disinterment.
The disinterment was scheduled for 7 p.m., and, exactly on time, a machine resembling a giant spider appeared.
He had unearthed the performer's skull, to the cheers and tears of four of Mr. Afraid of Hawk's family members who had come from the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota for the disinterment.
"He accomplished what he promised to, and we are forever grateful," she said, adding that she was also grateful to her reservation, which paid for her family's expenses to come to the disinterment.
Judge Mario Carroza on Friday ordered the disinterment after receiving a request from Mr. Allende's relatives, and the action should take place in the second half of May, according to a spokesman for the judiciary.
Observers have been awed by some of the recent exhumations, like President Hugo Chávez's 2010 televised disinterment in Venezuela of Simón Bolívar, a hero of South America's independence wars, in an unsuccessful attempt to prove he died from arsenic poisoning by Colombian oligarchs.
Twenty years later, her daughters contacted Ms. Hunt, who helped them locate her remains and arrange for their disinterment.
· So where to start: Jamiroquai or disinterment?
