The Methodist Church’s Rev Mandisi Mphithi was a faithful man of God whose love for his wife, Dunyiswa, and children was so firm that even the fire that claimed their lives could not separate them. This was according to the Rev Nompithizelo Sibidla, of the church’s Kumkani Hintsa district, of which Mphithi’s Seplan circuit in Cala was part.