‘BLACK CAT’S PREMONITION ABOUT HIS ‘DEPARTURE’

MNDOBANDOBA – Traditional healer, Elliot Fakuzde, 62, popularly known as Black Cat, had a premonition about his departure from the world of the living. 

This is according to his family members.

One of his sons said his father had in jest informed them that he was about to exit the world of the living, but they took it lightly as he was someone who always joked a lot.

On the day of his passing – Sunday - ‘Black Cat’ is said to have seen a dark cloud in the sky and he informed his children that they should wake him up when it (dark cloud) had passed.

After giving this instruction, the deceased was said to have gone to sleep in one of his consultation rooms, which in his lifetime he referred to as emakhosini. This consultation room is the one where Fakudze used to keep his supposedly speaking calabashes, which according to his sons they (calabashes) had already informed him that his time in this world was up. 

Instructed

According to his children, at about 2pm, those whom he had instructed to wake him up after the dark cloud had passed, did so. 

Thereafter, it was said he called upon two children (boys aged 13 and 18) to accompany him to Matata Shopping Complex, where he wanted to buy some groceries. They said he took his white Toyota Fortuner and he ordered the boys to sit at the back seat.

However, before they left, the children said he told them that he had remembered one of his sons Mukelo, who was a soldier and allegedly died in the hands of some soldiers who were under the Military Police Department while punishing him in 2012. 

Thereafter, they said Fakudze,went to the house and took a jacket which belonged to Mukelo and wore it. 

While en route to Matata Shopping Complex, it was said he had no challenges crossing over the Mndobandoba Bridge. This was despite the fact that the river was already flooding.

According to the 18-year-old boy, Sammy Samuels, while they were at Matata, ‘Black Cat’ gave a lift to a girl, who was their neighbour.

Samuels said as they journeyed back home, they found vehicles parked along the gravel road on both ends of the Mndobandoba Bridge. This, he said, was because the water levels had increased. 

Upon seeing the vehicles along the road, Samuels said the deceased in jest asked the motorists why they had parked along the road. In response, he claimed, some of the motorists said they were afraid of being swept away by the floods.

“Thereafter, he told the other motorists that he would try to cross the bridge, but if he did not make it, his family knew where they would find him,” claimed Samuels. 

Without taking their response into consideration, the teenager said ‘Black Cat’ proceeded with his journey and while halfway into the over-flooding bridge; their vehicle was swept by the water. The vehicle was travelling to the west direction (Hlatikhulu); but on impact from the water, the car changed direction and faced the south, which was the Lavumisa direction.

River

Thereafter, Samuels said the vehicle was washed into the river and started floating. He said when the car was forced by the floods into the river; he tried to open one of the doors.

However, the door did not swing open as the flooding water banged on it. Meanwhile, Samuels claimed that while battling to open the door wide open, the other doors locked upon the impact of falling into the river bank.

In the chaos that was ongoing, the teenager claimed that he assisted ‘Black Cat’ to leave the driver’s seat and sit with them at the back seat. 

Thereafter, he said the floods forcefully ejected ‘Black Cat’ out of the car through the door that had been partially opened. As this was happening, he said the 13-year-old boy tried to break one of the car windows. He said it was this window that they used to get out of the car.  “I remember seeing the girl trying to get out of the car using the open door, but I think she panicked too much and that is why maybe she ended up dying inside the vehicle,” claimed the teenage boy. 

Thereafter, he said they swam out of the river while the car was washed towards the railway line that is located about 500 metres from the bridge.

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