Glimmerings: A poor, black South African's theology of death

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June 27, 2006

A poor, black South African's theology of death

If he dies, so be it, Thabo says, to boisterous laughter from the crowd that surrounds him at central Johannesburg's Park Station. His mother is a member of a burial society who will pay for the funeral.

"They will cry and they will bury me. I will be a born again. You know anytime you are going to be born again. I might be a white boy."

BBC NEWS | Africa | Dicing with death on SA trains

Posted by thdyck on June 27, 2006

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