Taxi drivers undresses at colleague's funeral

ELDERLY mourners were shocked when taxi drivers stripped naked at a funeral on Saturday morning.

Daily Sun reported that the drivers started undressing at the Ga-Rankuwa zone 6 house of the dead Marcus "Robero" Mafora.

They brought the traffic to a standstill by sticking their bums out the windows of moving taxis all the way to Kgabalatsane Cemetery. Some danced on the back of a police truck during the celebration.

The mourners who went naked apparently were copying the dead man who was known to undress, get drunk and dance at his colleagues' funerals.

Some of the drivers said this was what Robero did and wanted – and he even did a lot worse!

Maria Matlhatsi (52) from Soshanguve, who was at the graveyard for her relative's burial, said she had never seen anything like it.

"The strippers were outside the graveyard and we struggled to get past them. Some came with big cooler boxes and sold alcohol," she said.

She said she even saw a grown man in the crowd wearing a nappy.

"It is unacceptable. It breaks down the process of burying the dead," she said.

The police were at the scene to monitor the situation.