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WHEN A CHIEF LEADS EVEN IN MOURNING

01/10/2017 03:11:00 By Musa Hlophe

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The last weekend was a particularly sad one for me and some of those whom we together lived and loved two special women who were both lost from their respective families and to us who knew them.

They both passed on the same day, but at different parts of the country. They were both highly respected in the education field and in their respective churches. They were gifted in music and deeply loved their respective families they have since left behind.
In case you are wondering as to who I am talking about? These were our sisters Dorah Shongwe (Née Ngcamphalala) and the Princess of late Prince Makhosini of Nkhungwini- Dudu Simelane, (Née Dlamini).

Each of them left us poorer because of who they were in our lives. Dudu left behind her husband whose name describes the situation he and their beautiful children now find themselves in after Sunday last week. Her husband’s name is Masalekhaya and indeed; ‘Masalekhaya” usele ekhaya yedvwana!’ (He has been left behind on his own indeed!”
Such names for our children need to be seriously reviewed and avoided.

On the other hand, Dora left behind beautiful daughters and grand- children as she joined her long departed husband and her parents .
I was privileged to have attended both memorial services because they took place on different dates. Dora’s memorial service took place on Friday, while Dudu’s took place the next day. Our hearts shall forever mourn the passing on of both these wonderful giants of education and exemplary adherents to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which they each lived and displayed in everything they each had to do. May our Only God and comforter keep their loved ones strong to stand the pressure of their loss but trusting Him for their eventual healing? Amen!

It is not the deaths of these two wonderful women I am talking about today, but rather what I saw at Dudu’s memorial service on Saturday, which was held at one of the churches - the Matsapha Evangelical Church under the leadership of the grandson of John Gamedze, one of the founders of the Evangelical Church in Swaziland- Dr. Nicholas Nyawo, who seems to believe that there is no bad luck that comes as a result of bringing a dead person’s coffin into the church service.