TAKE COVID-19 THREAT SERIOUSLY

Be open to adjustments.

There’s nothing about this current moment in history that allows for stubbornness.” - Unknown. Before I delve into the theme of today’s article, I wish to take this opportunity and pass my sincere condolences to the family of, as well as friends to and to all those who happened to rub shoulders with the late, well-known attorney, Lindifa Mamba, who, it is alleged, died from COVID-19 - related illness. I first came to know the late Mr Mamba, as well as another former, well-known attorney, the late Leo Gama, during my high school days in the 1980s, at St. Mark’s High School, a multi-racial school in Mbabane at the time. I was doing my ‘A’ Levels studies at the school. Both were students at the school and were very young at the time.

Mobilised

Yours truly, concerned about the after-school inactivity of the (high school boarders) youth in the lower grades of the school, mobilised the late Mamba, Gama and a group of other eager youngsters, to join me in after school sports lessons, where I taught them the basics of self-defense (martial arts) skills I had learned from another late icon, Clevy Dlamini, in Manzini during the late 1970s. Both Lindifa and Leo were excellent students academically and they loved sports. During my self-defense lessons, they were both examplary students and led by example. I somehow recognised both their potential leadership qualities during those early years. It was of no surprise then, to occassionally read in the media about their exploits and meteoric rise in the legal field, where they excelled as attorneys.

The country mourned when Leo passed away, just as it mourned the passing away of other prominent attorneys like the late Mandla Mkhwanazi and others. We continue to lose influential members of our society at an alarming rate. I am convinced and believe that it is proper and opportune for me, as a recent survivor of the pandemic, to reiterate our health experts’ incessant warnings that COVID-19 is very real, mean and deadly. It does not discriminate, does not give a hoot whether you are a person of status or an ordinary imfucuta, like yours truly, neither is it going away anytime soon. The country, though affected at a lesser extent compared to neighbouring countries like South Africa, has not been spared from the devastating effects of the virus.

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