Funeral for NWU Vaal student in Carletonville on Saturday
Please be patient in the area of his family's home in Oranje Street tomorrow.
A former Callies learner who died in an accident neat the Vaal campus of North West University last weekend will be laid to rest tomorrow (August 24).
According to the North West University, Olwethu Mpilenhle Tsane Khojane was one of six students from the Vanderbijlpark Campus of this university who died in an accident in the early morning hours of Sunday, 18 August.
The accident happened in Vanderbijlpark, about eight kilometres from the Moahi Village Residence where the students were residing.
According to Olwethu’s grandmother, Maneo, Olwethu was a second year Sports Management student as the campus.
“He was always a bubbly child and avid sportsman who loved soccer. He had always been dreaming of having a career in sports,” says his grandmother.
She says that Olwethu had been doing so well at university that he was chosen as a member of the NWU Students’ Representative Council (SRC) in the week before his death.
“He was chosen as Secretary and even got an office, which he unfortunately was only able to occupy for two days before he passed away,” says Maneo.
The bright young star would have turned 21 years old in October.
Before he attended Hoërskool Carletonville, Olwethu had been a learner of Westfields Primary School.
His funeral will be held from Our Lady of Dolours Catholic Church in Carletonville tomorrow at 08:00. The memorial service for Olwethu and the other students was held in Vanderbijlpark yesterday.
The family asks that other residents must please be patient tomorrow, as although the road in front of their home at 32 Oranje Street in Oberholzer will not be closed for the funeral, there will be a lot of cars and people around.
Olwethu leaves behind several family members.
Below is a description from Olwethu’s aunt, Dineo, about how she will remember him:
“What a lovely human being he was! I can’t believe I need to describe him in the past tense now. Ntsane, as his family called him was a people’s person. A humbled handsome little man. He loved his family, and his friends. He was a leader at his young age. Very funny and jolly person. He was a powerful prayer warrior, who would call his grandmother just for a quick prayer and go on about his day.
“I grew up with Ntsane. He is the first grandson to my parents, which means when he was born, he literally took my spot as the last born and as the favourite child in the family. I will miss our long phone calls and definitely video calls when he needed some serious advice. Ntsane never saw me as his aunt, I was his older sister…’Sis Dhiie’ as he would call me.
“I don’t know how I am going to live without my nephew, his death really has broken me into a million pieces. I will always love him, as much as I always did when he was alive. I hope and pray that he will be the most beautiful and greatest guardian angel, guardian ya ma 2k (GenZ).”
