The South African Council of Churches has slammed exorbitant funerals and wants burial societies to get better deals from insurance companies that underwrite their funeral schemes.
Church leaders say many funerals - estimated to cost R9.3-billion a year by financial services firm Old Mutual - are too expensive.
The SACC's ecumenical secretary in Gauteng, Rev Gift Moerane, said money was wasted on expensive funeral policies and coffins.
"South Africans do save but wrongly. We save money for death, not for life," said Moerane, who manages the SACC's nationwide financial literacy ministry.
Moerane said the SACC was talking to burial societies across the country to ensure that they get better deals for their members.
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