Times Of Swaziland: Robert Magongo’s mum  lashes out at Gelane

Robert Magongo’s mum  lashes out at Gelane
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BY MUSA SIMELANE on 28/08/2013 04:46:00


MBABANE – Ex-Motshane Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Magongo’s mother,
Grace, has lashed out at Senate President Gelane Zwane for likening her son to a
dog without a handler.
Zwane made this statement in June this year in response to Robert’s assertion
in the House of Assembly that the president was a dictator in Senate.
This was after the House was informed of several amendments which had been made
by the Senate on the Senate Elections Bill of 2013.
Robert said it was Zwane who told senators what to do and they had no say in
Parliament. The president said she felt insulted, and for that, she said  Robert
was like a dog without a handler and a total embarrassment to Parliament.
However, the 81-year-old Grace, in an interview on Sunday, questioned Zwane’s
nerve of talking about Robert that way. For starters, she said Zwane knew
nothing about Robert or his upbringing and had never carried him in her womb for
nine months.
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“This woman called Gelane, who does she think she is? I tell you, she has not
seen the last of my son. In fact she may think that she has got him, but she’s
wrong. When I gave birth to Robert I gave birth to a champion, I raised him the
hard way because I was making a man out of him,” stated Grace.
She said Zwane must just go home and rest because Robert will not fear her at
all.
Grace, a Shembe Church member, claimed that she fasted for a month so that her
son could win Saturday’s primary elections.
Because of her belief in prayer and fasting she saw him returning to Parliament
to serve another five years.
“I’m proud of my son and what he’s achieved. When I was pregnant with him
in 1959 I didn’t know that I was carrying an MP. I raised him with a tough
hand, he’s a fighter,” Grace said.