Encouraging words offered to the families of the three Tshwane metro police officers who were killed when their vehicle was rammed into head-on by an allegedly drunk driver fleeing another group of officers at the weekend.
She took a long breather as she battled to get through her address to the families and colleagues of the deceased officers.
“To lose three of your children at a go hurts, it really hurts ... Today I am battling to speak because the loss is too much,” Nkomo said. She said this incident was never meant to have happened. Elaborating on this, she said the words widow or widower were given for women and men who lost their spouses. She said orphans referred to the name of parentless children, but there was no name given to a parent who had lost a child.Echoing the words of the chaplain who had earlier taken to the podium, Nkomo urged the families to call upon and find solace in God.
One by one, family representatives of the three officers ascended to the stage to deliver the funeral details.“I trained the three colleagues. One of them was my brother,” he said, referring to Mukhwevho.“As families we are meant to be comforted but our minds, our hearts and our bodies can’t take it any more because we despair. It is very difficult,” he confessed, trying to hold back the tears.
“To the choir, we ought to be listening to your songs but our ears can’t hear anything. We are trying to understand what people are saying to us ... we are trying to translate all the messages that are being offered to us,” he added.
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