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  • 2021-02-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Yes, South African politician and businessman Tshekedi Pitso buried in his Mercedes-Benz (en)
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  • South African politician and businessman Tshekedi Pitso was buried inside his favourite car, a Mercedes-Benz, claims a screenshot of a social media post doing the rounds on Facebook in February 2021. Pitso was dressed in a white suit with his hands on the steering wheel of the Benz and seatbelt buckled when he was lowered into his grave. The screenshot includes a photo taken through a car window of a figure in the driver’s seat. Two more photos show a shrouded car being lowered into a large hole in the ground. Pitso was active in the Eastern Cape province branch of the United Democratic Movement political party. But Facebook’s fact-checking system has flagged the screenshot as possibly false. Was Pitso buried in his favourite car? We investigated. ‘Even wearing a seatbelt’ Both local and international news outlets reported on Pitso’s unusual burial in the Eastern Cape on 28 March 2020. And photos of the funeral lit up social media . South African politician gets buried inside his favourite car, a 1980s Mercedes-Benz E-class, Yahoo News reported at the time. News24 said Pitso was smartly dressed in a white suit before being placed in his Mercedes-Benz for burial. Photos of the ceremony show Pitso behind the wheel of his car as the vehicle is mechanically moved toward the hole in the ground, News24 reported . He is positioned in a way to resemble him driving and is even wearing a seatbelt. Family members also tweeted photos of the funeral. And plenty of videos confirm that the event took place . Pitso is not the first person to be buried in his car. The South African website reports that a businessman in Nigeria also chose to be buried in his beloved car, a BMW, in 2018. (en)
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