HIGH COURT ‘BURNS MIDNIGHT OIL’ IN BURIAL CASE

MBABANE – On Tuesday, the High Court burnt the midnight oil to determine a case in which a woman wanted to stop the burial of her married daughter midweek because she would not be able to attend the funeral.

The court dismissed Elda Dlamini’s application on the basis that her son-in-law, as the surviving spouse, had the right to determine when and where the deceased would be buried. Judge John Magagula presided over the matter.

The court sat for almost seven hours hearing the matter, from 4pm until just before 11pm. The funeral was scheduled to take place yesterday.

Dlamini wanted her deceased daughter to be buried on Saturday, to enable her relatives and church members to attend the funeral. However, the deceased’s in-laws insisted on continuing with the funeral yesterday despite Dlamini’s request.

She said her daughter’s mother-in-law informed her that she would not be told by another woman when funerals in her homestead should be conducted.

The deceased was married to Mabhutane Puma Fakudze in 2012 by civil rites and he paid a heard of seven cattle as lobola.
Dlamini said her daughter and Fakudze of Kwaluseni, encountered marriage problems her daughter continued to stay at her marital home. She said in March 2017, she received a phone call from her other daughters informing her that their sister was seriously ill.

She said she took her to Mbikwakhe Clinic where she was treated and discharged and the following day she informed her that she was feeling better.

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