DOUBLE BLOW AS MFOMFO’S PARENTS DIE WITHIN 3 DAYS

MATSAPHA - It’s a double blow for former Minister of Natural Resources Mfomfo Nkambule as he had lost both his parents within three days.

Nkhambule, who is also a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Mtfongwaneni Inkhundla in the Manzini Region lost his mother on Sunday afternoon at around 6, who died while at her home at Sigodvweni, Matsapha.

According to the erstwhile legislator, his mother, Veronica Sobahlekazi Nkhambule died at the age of 79 and had been sick since 2015. She said in 2015, his mother suffered from stroke and from there her health condition was unstable as it sometimes improved and later deteriorate.
“This happened until she met his death on Sunday afternoon,” he said.

While they were preparing to bury her tomorrow, the former legislator said his father, Mncene Matimbane Nkhambule (85), who was suffering from a heart problem among other sicknesses since last year, passed on. He said his father died while undergoing treatment at the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial (RFM) Hospital on Wednesday night at around 11.

He as a family, they were forced by the circumstances to postpone his mother’s funeral to next week so that they could bury them simultaneously. He said the family elders have met and proposed that the funerals be held on Saturday morning after a night vigil on Friday at their home at Sigodvweni in Matsapha.
On another note, the erstwhile MP said even though his parents were old, but said if the Lord had allowed his family to bury them differently by taking each at a time.

According to the former MP, his parents got married in the late 1950s and they had over 20 children and approximately 30 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
When giving a brief background about his father, the former MP said he once worked for the British government as a driver before the Kingdom of Eswatini gained independence from the British colonist.

Thereafter, the erstwhile legislator said his father worth in a farm which was owned by the British people in Malkerns before venturing into business in the early 1970s. He added that his father was first ordained as a pastor at Zion Apostolic Swaziland Church-South Africa before becoming a bishop.
However, he said when he met his death, head was no longer active in church because of his health conditions.

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