The heartbreaking sobs of Kedibone Matongo filled the Finetown hall in Johannesburg on Friday as her moving tribute to her late husband, executive mayor Jolidee Matongo, was read out at his funeral.
Government ministers, mayors, Gauteng MECs, premier David Makhura, high ranking ANC members, friends and family gathered to pay their final respects to Matongo, 46, who died in a horrific crash on the Golden Highway near Soweto last Saturday.
“On our wedding day you said we are selling our freedom on Freedom Day. I am grateful for the love you have given me and our son. You are truly a unique breed. “My humble calm, husband who always had a smile on his face. The pain that I am feeling now, I don't know how and when it will subside but I will hold onto your mantra: God will provide.
“It deeply pains us that our beloved comrade Joli is no more. It deeply pains us that he has left us too soon while we were expecting so much more from him.“Even in our deepest pain, we consider ourselves privileged that in comrade Jolidee we were in the company of so rare a jewel, who was a genuine friend, an activist to the core, a servant of the people and a well-rounded revolutionary.
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