Using death-certificate data supplied from the National Department of Health, just less than 490 000 deaths were recorded in South Africa in 2020. Of these, 442 558 died due to natural causes.

Why Do We Need a Death Certificate? The IRS may disagree, but the death certificate is arguably the most important legal document in existence. It's the only legal proof that someone has died.

This is despite South Africa having the world's largest antiretroviral ... the study compared the causes of death reported on official death certificates with data from medical records, forensic ...