Covid-19 to limit attendees at the Kingâs funeral
By Siboniso Mngadi
SIBONISO MNGADI
Covid-19 regulation will deprive thousands of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithiniâs subjects and dignitaries from paying their last respect as funeral proceedings are expected to change from the normal send off due to the pandemic.
Amabutho kaZulu surrounded the vehicle carrying Zulu King Zwelithiniâs body as it was released from Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital to his Palace in KwaNongoma yesterday. Picture: Nhlanhla Mtaka.
The lying in state process was overturned yesterday by the royal family fearing that people would gather in numbers to view the king s body posing a risk to contract the virus.
âKING ZWELITHINI RESPECTED EVERYONEâ Jabulani Langa
ZULU King Goodwill Zwelithini has
been described as a king who had respect for everyone.
King Zwelithini died on Friday
morning at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital in Durban after being hospitalised
for about a month.
His younger brother Prince Mbonisi
Zulu told
Daily Sun the king was like a father to them after their
father King Cyprian Bhekuzulu died.
“My father passed away when I was
only eight years old but when he took the throne he become a father to us. He
was a born king. He respected men and women.
“The biggest tree has fallen. I
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