Eulogy: ‘Comrade Jolidee Matongo Was A Unifier, Peacemaker, Tried And Tested Cadre Of The Congress Movement’

LEBOGANG MAILE|

WHEN reflecting upon the untimely passing on of comrade Jolidee Matongo, one is instantly reminded of two lines from the well-known Chinua Achebe novel Things Fall Apart: “He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

“For whom is it well, for whom is it well?

There is no one for whom it is well.”

For many of us, the news of Comrade Joli’s passing on was akin to a knife cutting through the things that hold us together and leaving us falling apart, shattered, in utter disbelief that a diamond that had been so well polished within the MDM structures and was now shining in a very public manner, had seen his life cut short in such an inexplicable manner.

For many of us, since hearing of Comrade Joli’s tragic passing on, it has not been well. We have