MEC MAKAMU PAYS TRIBUTE TO LATE KGOSIGADI MASHA: “A BAOBAB HAS FALLEN IN SEKHUKHUNE”
- Mpho Dube
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By Mpho Dube, Editor-in-Chief
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A baobab has fallen in Sekhukhune.
Its roots ran deep for 82 years. Its branches gave shade to kings, queens, and commoners alike. And when the wind of 19 May 2026 came, the land felt the silence.
Kgosigadi Masha was not just royalty. She was the living archive of her people. The keeper of proverbs. The fire around which Sekhukhune gathered its memory.
MEC for CoGHSTA, Mr Basikopo Makamu, stood at Ga-Masha today with the weight of that silence on his shoulders. He did not come with politics. He came with respect.
“Today we do not bury a woman,” Makamu told the sea of mourners in blankets and royal beads. “We bury a library. We bury a compass. Kgosigadi Masha was the North Star of her community. When paths divided, her wisdom pointed the way home.”
In African kingship, a kgosigadi is not a crown worn — it is soil tilled. She plants. She waters. She waits. For 82 years Kgosigadi Masha tilled the soil of unity in Sekhukhune. She settled disputes like rain settles dust. She spoke, and even mountains leaned in to listen.
“Leadership is not about sitting on a throne,” Makamu said, his voice low. “It is about carrying your people on your back like a mother carries her child through thorns. Kgosigadi Masha carried her nation for eight decades without complaint. That is royalty. That is service.”
The MEC said her passing leaves a throne empty, but a legacy full. “She taught us that culture is not museum dust. Culture is the breath in our lungs. It is the name we give our children. It is the language we use to pray. Kgosigadi Masha kept that breath alive.”
As drums rolled and izimbongi praised her name for the last time, Makamu pledged the Limpopo government’s commitment to preserve what she protected: the dignity of traditional leadership, the stories of Sekhukhune, and the unity of the Masha nation.
“A baobab falls, but its seeds remain,” Makamu concluded. “Kgosigadi Masha’s seeds are in every daughter she mentored, every chief she advised, every child she named. Let us water those seeds. Let Sekhukhune never go thirsty for wisdom again.”
Hamba kahle, Kgosigadi. The throne is quiet tonight. But your voice will echo in these mountains forever.
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