‘Not even death shall us two part’
Not even death could stop him from marrying his one true love.Gamelihle Dlungwane‚ 63‚ married his school sweetheart and mother of his three children‚ Sindiswa Khuzwayo‚ on Sunday in a traditional ceremony in the rural village of Gunjini‚ north of Durban.The couple had been dating since high school and were set to get married on June 24‚ when Khuzwayo‚ 63‚ died last Sunday‚ of complications relating to her diabetic condition.Heartbroken by her death‚ Dlungwane felt compelled to give his wife the wedding she had dreamed of. “She had dreamed about her wedding day for years. Before she died‚ she had asked for a wedding ring and for a veil to wear with her traditional outfit. I gave her those two things,” Dlungwane said.He said while he lived with Khuzwayo for over 20 years and had three children‚ he hadn’t proposed to her until she became ill. Two of the children have died and they have three grandchildren.“I have known for over 20 years that she was the one for me and I wasn’t going to let her death stop me from making her my wife‚” he said.On Sunday‚ hundreds of friends and family watched as Dlungwane danced‚ in his traditional Zulu attire‚ in front of his wife’s coffin.During the ceremony it was Khuzwayo’s younger sister‚ Ntokozo Khuzwayo‚ who danced in place of her sister and performed the duties of bride during the traditional wedding.According to Zulu tradition‚ when the wife dies the husband can take on one of her sisters as a bride. Although Dlungwane is all for the idea of taking Ntokozo as a bride‚ Ntokozo is not as thrilled.“He will always be my brother-in-law and like a friend to me‚ [but] I have no intention to marry him‚” said a giggling Ntokozo...
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