A JOINT memorial service organised by the Department of Community Safety and Liaison had to be postponed yesterday.
This comes after the two families in whose honour the memorial was to be held could not hide their hatred of each other.
On Tuesday the department had announced that a massive memorial service for the late Nonsikelelo Blose (40) and Xolani Ngcobo (38) would be held at Nondlini Community Hall yesterday.
The two are members of the ANC and SACP who were killed during unrest at Inchanga, west of Durban, early this week. Nonsikelelo’s angry daughter, Nomfundo Blose (22) said her mum would never be disrespected like that.
“My family can never allow my mum’s memorial service to be combined with that of her enemy.
“Those people killed her and we want nothing to do with them.”
She said her family had no intention of having a memorial service.
Xolani’s younger brother, Mfundo Ngcobo (24), said a meeting was held at his home on Wednesday and a decision was taken that his brother should have his own memorial service.
“It will take place on Friday (today) at Michael Gwala Hall. We realised that nothing good will come out if the SACP and ANC members meet so soon after these killings. They are better when they keep a distance from each other for a while,” he said.
Sipho Khumalo, spokesman for the department, said the postponement of the joint memorial service was to allow the leadership of the two organisations to engage in further talks to stabilise the area.
- Meanwhile, two men accused of killing Nonsikelelo appeared in the Camperdown Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
They are being kept in jail until they appear in court against next Wednesday.
The men, both aged 30, are facing charges of murder and of pointing a firearm.
The cases against 41 people arrested for public violence were withdrawn due to lack of evidence.
