Cleansing ceremony to end mourning for Florah Mashamba

After a year of mourning the great brain behind the multi-million-rand Matsila Development Trust, the Matsila Royal family performed a cleansing ceremony at Mashamba Village a fortnight ago.

According to Chief Nkhiphitheni Matsila, the cleansing marked the end of their mourning for the late Florah Mashamba, whose contribution at the Matsila Development Trust created a lot of jobs. She passed on last year on 10 July. “Due to her wisdom, the trust employed more than 300 people in the fields of agriculture, poultry, vegetable farming, arts and culture and environmental management. Now we can arrange any gig or celebration because all chains are broken on Saturday. It gives us much more strength to go on with development in her honour.”

He added that she was a “very special library of wisdom. She taught me a lot on how to be a cognitive leader. She was a unifier of the community at large and the royal family. She advised me to be honest and transparent towards the people as their leader.”

The senior traditional leader, Thovhele Nthumeni Masia, expressed his appreciation to the royal family and the entire community of Matsila for hounoring their pioneer in development.

Date:23 July 2015

By: Kaizer Nengovhela

Kaizer Nengovhela started writing stories for Limpopo Mirror in 2000. Prior to that he had a five year stint at Phala-Phala FM as sports presenter. In 2005 Kaizer received an award from the province's premier as Best Sports Presenter. The same year he was also nominated as Best Sports Reporter by the Makhado Municipality. Kaizer was awarded the Mathatha Tsedu award in 2014.

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