At her home

any other place that which they had prepared.

³To my surprise and shock, in the morning of Thursday the March

rd

, I saw an advert in the &lassified ads of The Times of Eswatini, that the deceased was to be buried on Sunday the March and

th

the vigil and or funeral procession service was to be held at his parental homestead in Pigg s Peak, which is my home,´ said -oyce.

Preparations

She further submitted that ³This is not only absurd, but also defeats logic in that Selby’s sons had not sought my consent to bury the deceased in my homestead, nor have they included myself in the logistics for the preparations of the funeral. 1ot only was the deceased during his life not allowed to come to my homestead, we were not in talking terms with him and his children are aware of this fact.´

-oyce said she had been advised that before a person could be buried there were certain preparations that had to be undertaken in the homestead for the funeral, inclusive of preparing a mourning house for guests, clearing the yard and other family rituals as a sign of respect for the deceased.

³The first to eighth respondents have ignored all these important steps and rituals. In fact, I have never heard that people can go to isolation and spring a surprise by naming the place where a person is to be buried without involving the family council lusendvo , as they have done in the present matter.

³:hat further compounds the situation herein is that myself and the deceased had no relationship that he can now on his death come to be buried or come to my homestead in a coffin. I wish to state vividly before the court that I am not against the burial of the deceased. It is my humble wish that the deceased be laid down to rest peacefully, however, at his home and not mine.

³)urther, I do not even wish to battle with the respondents Selby’s sons in unending litigation. They are my family. It is not my wish that these court proceedings bring strife between the families, but that the first to eighth respondents should respect that during the lifetime of the deceased and myself, we had a strained relationship and this cannot be cured by his death,´ -oyce further argued.

Procession

She pointed out that their point of departure was when they published that the funeral procession would be at her home.

The applicant said if she were to allow this to happen, it would simply mean that even in future, despite who had passed on, the family would take it as a norm that there was a house where all deceased persons and where all funeral arrangements would be done prior to burial.

-oyce submitted that she could not allow this to happen. She said ³In fact, they are now trying to take control over my home. I cannot allow that.´ The matter is pending in court.

-oyce once accused Selby of fraudulently appending his signature on her late husband’s :ill.

This was during a case in which Selby and some of his siblings had taken the master of the High &ourt and /ontinga’s two wives, -oyce and /ouisa, to court seeking an order reviewing and setting aside the ruling of the master and removing the duo as e[ecutors of their father’s E million estate. $t a certain period, the High &ourt halted the distribution of /ontinga’s estate.