Dr Mutavhatsindi buried at Vyeboom

“If it was within my powers, I would spare Rev Mutavhatsindi’s life for many more years,” said Thovhele Vho-Nthumeni Masia during the funeral ceremony of Dr (Rev) Muthuphei Albert Mutavhatsindi at Vyeboom last Saturday. He passed away on Saturday, 26August.

He described Mutavhatsindi as an example of the few honest and trustworthy people in the country. He further stated that many so-called pastors exploited people in the Name of God. “Imagine a situation where people are made to eat things like magwavhavha (newts), simply because they are desperate for healing,” he said.

 A representative from the University of Pretoria, Dr Van Niekerk, described Mutavhatsindi’s death as a great loss to the academic community.

Mutavhatsindi was a full-time minister of the Reformed Church, De Hoop congregation (Synod Soutpansburg) and was stationed at Ha-Masia. He was also part-time a lecturer in theology at the University of Pretoria.

A representative from the church, Dr ST Ntshauba, said that the church would remember Mutavhatsindi as a unifier, a hardworking and selfless person.

Born in the Pimville, Johannesburg, on 20 August 1967, Mutavhasindi completed his high school education at Tshinavhe High School in 1986. He registered for a diploma in theology with the Heidelberg College of Theology in 1992. He obtained his BA degree in Theology from the University of Potchefstroom in 1998.  He obtained his doctorate from the University of Pretoria in 2009.

Mutavhatsindi was the chairperson for the Vuwani Pastors’ Forum and a member of the Avhatondwi Primary School’s governing body at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, Stella, and five children, three of whom are boys.

Date:09 September 2017

By: Frank Mavhungu

Frank is a Human Resources Manager at the Department of Public Works in Limpopo. He is the longest serving correspondent of the Mirror, having joined us at the end of 1990.  He mainly writes sports reports and resides at Tsianda Village. In 2004, Frank won the National Castle League Award, an award for the best reporter in the SAB league in South Africa.

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