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The Memory Dial

Open a loved one's memorial from your phone. Start with your mobile number and we will SMS you a PIN.

Your mobile number

Use the number the family gave NEWDAWN for this memorial.

Enter your PIN

We sent a 5-digit PIN by SMS.

PIN

The PIN works for 10 minutes.

The Memory Dial

Enter the plot number and the last name, then dial the date of passing.

Plot number

Last name

Date of passing

This is a preview. Press Save changes to make it live.

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Share with family on WhatsApp

Anyone you send the link to can see this tribute and hear its music, without signing in.

Or send it straight to one number

Their WhatsApp number. Outside South Africa? Start with + or 00 and the country code.

Add your spoken tribute

Speak to them, or about them, in your own language. Up to 2 minutes. It plays on the tribute exactly as you said it, next to the words and the music. Everyone linked to this memorial can add their own.

Spoken tributes from the family

Keep this song with you: a 29-second ringtone for your phone.

Your mobile number

We SMS you the download link. Outside South Africa? Start with + or 00 and the country code.

Payments are processed securely by Payfast and appear on your statement as PAYFAST*SUMMITWEBCRAFT, the company behind NEWDAWN.

Remember someone you love.

NEWDAWN makes affordable cement crosses and tombstones, and virtual tributes like this one, with their own music.

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Find the grave

Walk there with Google Maps Drive to the cemetery with Waze Open in Apple Maps

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Only NEWDAWN staff see this. Tap the map where the grave is, or drag the pin. You can also paste coordinates.

Coordinates (optional)

Show this plot on the public map

Cemetery office

Edit this tribute

Change the photographs, the words, the voice message, the music or the frame, or correct the name, the dates, the cemetery or the plot number. Changes go live straight away, and you can undo them.

Photographs

Tap a photograph to replace it. The new one goes live straight away.

First names

Last name

Date of birth

Date of passing

Cemetery

Plot number

A few words for them 0 of 200

Their message in your voice

Music

Frame

Floral

Charcoal

Garden

Gold

Family numbers

Add the mobile numbers of family members who should be able to open this memorial. Each person signs in with their own number and their own PIN.

Their name

Their mobile number

Outside South Africa? Start with + or 00 and the country code, for example +44 7700 900123.

NEWDAWN

Your personal information: your mobile number is used to sign you in and to keep a record of visits to a memorial. If you pin a grave, its location is kept with the memorial so the family can find it again; the guide to the grave runs on your phone and does not send us your location. All of this is in line with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). To see, correct or delete it, contact the Information Officer at forever@newdawn.family.

Information Officer: Irvan Damon · Registered Information Officer · SUMMITWEBCRAFT (Pty) Ltd · IO Reg. 2026-004258

© 2026 SUMMITWEBCRAFT (Pty) Ltd, Reg. 2017/374199/07. All rights reserved. NEWDAWN™ and the Memory Dial™ are trade marks of SUMMITWEBCRAFT (Pty) Ltd. The text, films, photographs, designs and software on this site may not be copied or reused without written permission. Photographs and words supplied by families remain theirs.