@SZondi
Growing up in South Africa I had always known about “a
long illness” that kills young people at their prime when they should be living
their dreams. I remember that on many weekends my parents would go to funerals.
The interesting thing is that when I was really young my mom and dad would go
to ‘old people’ funerals. They would tell me it would be a certain person’s
gran or grandfather, but as time went on it started to change and people being
buried started to get younger.
On their return from these funerals my mother and her
friends would often discuss the person and a line I remember often being said is,
“Cha ubesegulile bandla”. Loosely translated to: “No, they had been sick a
while.”
