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MBABANE – The Ministry of Home Affairs Communications Officer Mlandvo Dlamini, says obtaining of death certificates is still an uphill struggle for many.

Dlamini said they noted that people were still buried without death certificates in the country.

“Some families stay up to 10 years without obtaining a death certificate for their deceased family members,” he said.

He said the only time families ers of COVID-19. The banning of gatherings was under Part V, Section 25 (1) which prohibited the gathering of people more than 20, in order to control rushed to make death certificates was when they expected an insurance payout in the form of a funeral or life cover. Further, he said they were hopeful that the launch of the government elderly funeral cover would encourage people to seek death certificates. This is because some of the requirements of the E3 000 cover is a death certificate.

Moreover, Dlamini said the issue of burying people without death certificates was a disadvantage to the country’s central statistics. He the spread of the virus. The regulations were later amended to allow the gathering of not more than 50 people. Further, gatherings were restricted to two hours. said these people remained alive in the systems because they had not been registered dead. The ministry’s spokesperson said that tended to give a wrong country statistic, which might affect other sectors that might need to use the statistics when allocating resources.

He urged emaSwati to register death certificates, within 60 days of the demise of a loved one.

The ministry’s 2022 second quarter report shows that the country registered 2 225 deaths in three months.