Times Of Swaziland: ‘INCANGANCANGA WOMAN’  HINTED ON SUICIDE - RELATIVE

‘INCANGANCANGA WOMAN’  HINTED ON SUICIDE - RELATIVE
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Sabelo Majola on 18/11/2024 08:01:00


MBABANE – Zakhona Sibandze, the woman who gained popularity for making
submissions about sex at the Sibaya, hinted to some community members that she
was about to commit suicide.
Sibandze, a teacher at Matsapha Government Primary School, ingested a poisonous
pill on Friday and succumbed to poison. Her passing was confirmed by a relative
yesterday.Sibandze, from Velebantfu in the Shiselweni Region, went to a local
general dealer and found people at a shop. The relative revealed that Sibandze
told the people she found at the shop that they were seeing her for the last
time. This was after she had already ingested the poisonous pill.The relative
revealed that Sibandze bought the pill at an agriculture shop, little did they
know that she intended to end her life.
The relative said Sibandze arrived at home on Friday and found that her
grandmother who resides at the homestead, was not there. “She proceeded to the
agriculture shop and bought the pills. Then she went to a local shop and told
the people that they were seeing her for the last time and this was after she
had ingested the pill. She then vomited and the people could tell that she had
ingested a poisonous pill, judging by its smell,” she said.The energetic
Sibandze created hype at the last Sibaya late last year when making her
submissions, shouting ‘seyisukile Wena Phakathi’, giving the impression that
what she was about to present deserved everyone’s attention.
However, she started telling the audience that her mother, who was unmarried,
abstained from sex and she didn’t know what her reasons were.Astonished, the
crowd started murmuring, wondering what that had to do with the topic of
economic sustainability and fighting corruption, which the people had been
requested to dwell on and share ideas around.While still mesmerised by the
submission, Sibandze continued to reveal that her father also refrained from
sexual activity. Before she concluded the sentence on it, the crowd was up on
its feet calling for her removal from the podium.
“Take that woman off the stage, she is busy telling us about sex, something we
have no business with. Akakhweshe, luhlanya lolu, ingenaphi i-sex lana,”
shouted the crowd.Puzzled by the crowd’s reaction, Sibandze was seen leaning
towards the programme director, Sifiso Mashampu Khumalo, as if enquiring what
the crowd was furious about. For at least 60 seconds, the crowd was up in arms
ordering her removal from the stage.It was after a brief moment of fury from the
crowd that Sibandze eventually gave up the microphone and went off the stage,
evidently disappointed judging from her facial expression.Her disappointment was
also magnified by her decision to actually leave the cattle byre a few moments
after leaving the stage, as she was seen negotiating her way out and leaving
through the Sibaya main gate.