It's Saturday In Soweto & Township Gears Up For #1 Weekend Activity - Funerals - AFP

It is Saturday in Soweto and AIDS-ridden South Africa's biggest township is geared up for its foremost weekend activity: funerals.
Traffic police officers are dispatched en masse to the major streets where the sheer number of funeral processions would render chaos if one had to rely on traffic lights alone.

"Nowadays young people are dying like flies," reflects 27-year-old Modise Selebogo as the family of a close friend throws soil on the grave at Avalon Cemetery, Soweto's biggest burial ground.

Music from another funeral not 10 feet away wafts over to intersperse with singing at this graveside, where a young male victim of the AIDS pandemic joins thousands of others below the soil. Scores of freshly covered mounds creep towards the edge of the cemetery where many heroes of South Africa's liberation struggle were buried and several dug graves lie waiting for funerals later in the day.

South Africa, which recent United Nations' data has shown to have the worst rate of HIV sufferers on the planet, is experiencing soaring death rates -- mostly among young people -- resulting in overcrowded cemeteries and weekends spent attending funerals.

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