BEN ZWANE’S DAUGHTER THANKS FORMER PM FOR ‘VICTIMISATION’

MBABANE – A front page picture of her late father being dragged by police officers out of Parliament premises still lingers on in the mind of former Clerk to Parliament Ben Zwane’s daughter.

And it is not just because Nomfundo, who is in her early 30s, misses him, but the reason is none other than the death of the man who allegedly orchestrated the whole move to have her father go through such.

The man is none other than former Prime Minister Sibusiso Barnabas Dlamini, who passed away last Friday. For the businesswoman, who is now based in South Africa, while many are mourning the death of the former PM, she thinks of a man she believes robbed her and the whole Zwane family of happiness.
However, while one would expect her to perhaps curse him, she is saddened by the fact that the former PM passed away without her getting an opportunity to thank him.

In a post she put on social media platform facebook, Nomfundo said the late PM might have thought he was robbing her and her siblings of their childhood when in actual he was helping them to be united.

Her post was widely visible as she attached some of the newspaper publications which ran the many articles on the impasse between her father and the former PM. “I am sad he died before I could tell him ‘Thank you Nkhosi, Dlamini’.

He may have believed attempting to victimise my dad was some sort of punishment to him, but he helped us grow in love and in unity,” she said in her post.
In her view, the former PM may have believed that attempting to victimise his father was some sort of punishment to him but that it helped her and the rest of her siblings to grow.

“We did not have electricity and that meant we had each other as entertainment. We had to boil water to bath outside, because the electricity supplier had taken their lights. We had to eat beans daily while his kids ate well, we would be kicked out of school, we did not have clothes or running water, all we had was each other. But dad, my hero, still kept his faith in God, thus giving us the valuable lesson that there is a God out there and when he shows up, he shows off,” she said.

Elaborating, the woman said at 14 years of age, she had to learn business and was not going to engage in illicit ways of making money as she had been raised by a man of high principles. “Thank you Sibusiso Barnabas Dlamini, I am who I am today all thanks to you. Genuinely, I pray your soul rests in peace,” she said.

As expected, facebookers were impressed with the post with most of them saying it was inspirational.
When called for comment by this reporter, she confirmed that the post was written by her and had no problem with it published in this newspaper.
“It is okay. It is not like I have much of a say about it since I did put it on social media.

My only prayer is one, this man is responsible for my success, my joy, the close knit unit that my siblings and I are today. He made me the manager I am today I don’t wish for any negativity to come as a result of my post for I will and I am eternally grateful for the challenges we faced,” she said.

Nomfundo’s father eventually passed on in 2010 after collapsing in his office of employment and was certified dead at the Mbabane Government Hospital. At the time of his death, he held the position of under secretary in the ministry of home affairs.

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