SHOT TEACHER HAD PREMONITION ABOUT DEATH

NHLANGANO – The female teacher of  Othandweni Primary School, Nokuthula Dlamini,  who was allegedly killed by her businessman husband, somehow had a premonition that her life would end in a bad way.

This is, at least, if what she is reported to have said recently can be anything to go by. A resident revealed that the woman’s life was torn asunder when her relationship with her husband hit a nose dive a few years ago. The resident said the quarrel resulted in the woman leaving her homestead, but she was always worried about leaving the place which she said she had developed in order for her children to have a place to call home. “She was always complaining about the homestead and the fear that she could be hurt over the same issue,” narrated the resident.  In fact, domestic violence has somehow become a common occurrence, and Shiselweni chiefs are calling for an urgent response to put an end to this.

This is in light of the grim picture painted by the increasing statistics in the kingdom where a day hardly passes without a report on the incidence of violence against women, with the latest being the death of Dlamini. She was on Saturday found allegedly murdered at her home around Davies, under Zombodze Emuva Constituency, which is located on the southern part of the Kingdom of Eswatini.  While many efforts are being made to address gender-based violence, including the enactment of the Social Offences and Domestic Violence (SODV) Act of 2018, Chief Mbiko of Engwenyameni emphasised the need to get to the root cause of domestic violence along other endevours aimed at winning the battle. The chief was reacting to the shocking news of the teacher’s death, which occurred under his area.

“We are deeply saddened by what has happened. As chiefs, we have been entrusted to lead people, but it is so saddening that at the rate at which people are being killed, there could come a time where there are no people to lead at all. Our role as community leaders is being threatened,” lamented the traditional leader, who said the community of Ngwenyameni was still reeling from the shock of the grisly murder. He condemned the killing of the woman. The chief echoed the words of Chief Dambuza Lukhele of Ngobolweni, in the Shiselweni Region, who also called for society to look into the reasons why so much violence was taking place in the domestic front. Lukhele was speaking during a sensitisation exercise for the region’s chiefs on the SODV Act last Thursday. “We need to address the why first, before we go on with the fight against the scourge,” he said.

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