ALI MPHAKI
Grief has enveloped family, friends, colleagues and fellow congregants of Keikantsheng Manyakalle who died last Saturday.
She was 40.
The Rockville-born Manyakalle succumbed to suspected cancer at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital. She had been in hospital for only a week.
As expected, the death of a God-loving person like Manyakalle at such a young age tends to leave many people with lots of unanswered questions. The questions on many lips are: why did God take her so soon, and how is her 11-year-old son Kopano going to face life without his mom?
The last-born in a family of three children, Manyakalle did her primary schooling at Sefika LP and Isaacson Higher Primary before moving to Dewetsdorp in the Free State, where she completed matric at the local high school.
She died while employed as an administration clerk at LKE Homes. Her colleagues at work say they will dearly miss her dedication and hard work.
A woman of few words, Manyakalle believed that deeds rather than words determined a person’s character. “We will miss her quiet wisdom. It’s like she knew that silence can be golden,” lamented her brother Khumo.
Also mourning Manyakalle’s death are her fellow congregants at the House of Joy denomination in White City Jabavu, where she was a regular.
Manyakalle will be buried tomorrow after a requiem mass at House of Joy, which will start at 8am. The cortege will proceed to the Avalon cemetery at 10am.