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Wives fight over husband’s body By Elmon Tshikhudo The SABC 2 soapie Muvhango came to life at Tshitomboni outside Thohoyandou. At the centre of the tale is a man whose body has been lying in a mortuary for the past three weeks. His two former wives and his current wife, who was living with him at the time of his death, are in a tug-of-war over who is to bury him. Mr Phineas Mudzunga (53), who worked for the Limpopo Department of Roads and Transport, died three weeks ago and was supposed to have been buried a weekend after his death. At the time of his death, he was staying with Vho Makhadzi Vho Johanna Mpondi. After his death, Mpondi started with funeral arrangements, but the funeral was stopped a day before the ceremony by the two other wives, who claimed that they were entitled to bury him as his only lawful wives. An empty grave with a tombstone at a nearby gravesite is the only reminder of the funeral that was halted. Last Wednesday, the first two wives, who had vowed that Mpondi would not bury him, started with preparations to bury Mudzunga. A new grave was
dug as they said they could not use did the same, but family members told the one prepared by the new wife. The me that I had to see what to do to bury providing of food and other preparahim,” tions had reached the final stages when, late on Friday, Mpondi also sought the help of the courts to stop them from burying the man she loved. The matter was also referred to the local traditional leader, Chief Zwidofhelangani Mmbubana, who tried to solve the matter in an amicable way, but with no success. It is alleged that Mudzunga and Mpondi had been staying together as husband and wife for the past 16 years. “My husband fell sick a month-and-a-half ago and I thought he would pull through, but he passed away. Before he died we agreed that if he died first, I should be the one to bury him and if I were to die first, he promised to bury me,” Mpondi said. “I will stick to this promise and I am prepared to fight tooth and nail to have the right to fulfil his death wish. If needs be, I am prepared to go to the highest courts to bury him,” she added. She said when he fell ill, she notified his family, who told her to her face that they did not have anything to do with it. “Even when he died, I
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