HEADMAN TAKES RA TO COURT OVER STAMP

MBABANE – Married couples in the community of kaLaMlalati in the Shiselweni region will allegedly not be able to register for marriage certificates.

 The same goes for aspiring businesspeople who will allegedly not be a in a position to obtain business licences and renew firearm licences. Members of the community will also not be able to obtain death certificates for their departed loved ones.

This after the Shiselweni Regional Administrator Themba Masuku allegedly stopped the headman of kaLaMlalati from using a stamp he disapproved of which he said the headman was using illegally.
Masuku is alleged to have informed the headman to stop using the stamp after he saw it stamped on documents brought to the offices of the RA for signature by students who were filling in scholarship forms.

The veracity of these allegations is still to be tested in court. The headman, Abraham Mathunjwa, is represented by Chazile Thwala of B.S Dlamini and Associates. The RA is yet to file responding papers.
Mathunjwa, said he was called to the RA’s offices together with the vice headman and the Zombodze Emuva headman Mbabazeni Nkonyane on February 3, 2017. That is where Masuku allegedly informed them that the stamp Mathunjwa was using, he was doing so illegally.

The area of kaLaMlalati falls under Lihambate Lenkhosi and it is not a chiefdom. Mathunjwa alleged that the area was declared to fall under the Zombodze Emuva umphakatsi by the late King Sobhuza II.
He alleged that they used the Zombodze Emuva Royal Kraal for issues that require royal kraal authority. The headman further alleged that in 1979, the late king declared that he was the area’s chief, indvuna and chief’s runner and also gave the community an inkhosikati.

However, Masuku, in a letter he wrote to Mathunjwa ordering him to stop using the stamp, said there was a ruling that was issued by the king declaring that the residents of kaLaMlalati should be under the authority of Mbilaneni.
Masuku made it clear in the letter that his office would not assist those whose documents have been stamped with the ‘illegal’ stamp of KaLaMlalati. He said for now the students would not be frustrated by the decison.
“The regional administrator stopped the use of the stamp and emphasised on the issue that the people of KaLaMlalati be under Mbilaneni Royal Kraal. He further stopped the Zombodze Emuva Royal Kraal from helping the people of KaLaMlalati area.

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