Day 1: 25 August 2025
Overview of Johannesburg’s cemeteries – Azola Manjati
Bring him/her back home – Baloyi Elijah
Sustainable death care in Africa – Beauty Kujinga
Green fencing in urban cemeteries – Boitumelo Faith Mafafo
National Department of Health – Dr Relebohile Ncha
Reimagining cemeteries: Climate Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Development – Dorah Kiki & Mr Rabelani Tshikalange
Circular memorial eco-entrepreneurship – Lusanda Paul
Sustainability in long-term planning – Katharine Sarabjiet
Urban cemeteries as green development – Bongumusa Walter
Impact of homelessness in cemeteries. A case study in the City of Johannesburg – Bishop Ngobeli
The friends of Johannesburg cemeteries – Antoinette Morgan
Day 2: 26 August 2025
Visualizing Personhood: cemeteries as archives of the future – Prof. Kathryn Smith
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The silent crisis: Unidentified natural deaths and legislative gaps in Western Cape public hospitals
Municipal innovations – Dr Reginald Dennis Gwisai
Circular memorial economies: Reimagining sustainable deathcare through eco-entrepreneurship – Linda Paul
Reimagining memorial practices – Dr Piali Haldar
Importance of EIA and regulations – Vusi Skosana
Department of Home Affairs – Kgomotso Masekela
Efficient space use in burial sites – Dr Hasani Patrick Shikolokolo
Environmental compliance – Johann Roussouw
