Final tribute for gogo (116)
Speaker after speaker described the late gogo Tshinakaho Muguta Ramantswana (116) as 'a unifier to the Tshisundzungwane's clan and the community at large'.
LIMPOPO – She passed away peacefully in her daughter’s house in Mulodi village in the Mutale area on Monday, 18 June after a long illness and was laid to rest in the Zwiendaeulu (sacred place) of Mufulwi village on Saturday.
Ramantswana was one of the oldest people in her village, Mufulwi, in the Mutale area and hundreds of people from all corners of the country, some from as far as Gauteng, attended her funeral to pay their last respects.
One of her daughters, Sarah Thenga, described her late mother as a celebrity because her funeral was characterised by celebrating her lifelong achievements and the impact she had in her village.
Thenga said she always encouraged her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to work hard, strongly believing that they will reap the rewards.
She added her mother also helped to promote a free-living community as no one would steal from another. Ramantswana was also an inyanga or traditional healer and thugs were afraid they would be bewitched.
Reading her obituary, Mukondi Nefefe and one of his grandchildren said Ramantswana was a people’s person and they feel saddened to have lost such an influential and important person, one of the most well-known celebrities from the Tshisudzungwane clan.
Nefefe said Ramantswana was one of the aunties (khadzi) in the Tshisudzungwane’s clan in Tshitanzhe and was the young sister of Nyamudzhedzi Tshisudzungwane who passed away in 2005.
“We celebrate her memory through her funeral as she was regarded as the oldest person in Mufulwi village and had lived for more than a century.”
She leaves behind two daughters, Sarah Thenga and Eni Mudau, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
