Fikile Mlotshwa, a community activist best known for being the first person to win the Sowetan Woman of the Year Award in 1987, has died. According to her heartbroken daughters, Mlotshwa was not only a mother but also an Africanist, a community worker, a lover, a woman of God and caregiver. Beyond the public eye, Mlotshwa was a mother who valued simplicity and strength, they said.
Speaking to Sowetan just a few days after her mother’s passing, Thandi Mlotshwa, 50, described her mom as a phenomenal woman with an angelic voice. “My mom always emphasised prayer. She would say, ‘Do the good things anyway.
Do not expect to be praised or rewarded. Don’t want something in return, but always do everything with God.’ She was a woman of prayer. “She would always say, ‘I don’t go to traditional healers, and I don’t use muthi.’ She said since her mother’s passing on Sunday, the family has been having a very difficult time.
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“We are celebrating her life and being very grateful to God that he gave us a mother. She was a very simple woman. She would tell us that when she dies, she wants the cheapest coffin.
When we went to the parlour with my siblings and were looking at coffins, we all laughed because there was no way we were going to bury mama in a cheap box,” she said. “She would say, ‘Save money and bury me in a tomato box.’ “She loved flowers, and we are grateful that we were able to give her the flowers she deserved.”
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