35 years later mother still mourning death of her daughter
Remembrance ceremony for Ester Mantwa Molotsi.
It has been 35 years since Ester Mantwa Molotsi from Pimville was brutally killed by the Apartheid region officers but the pain still looks fresh in her mother’s face.
Molotsi’s mother Julia with the same surname still remembers September 13, 1985, like it was yesterday as it marks the last day her daughter was breathing and died. The deceased was shot at the age of 13 years outside Thabajabula High School during a state of emergency.
On the day Molotsi was shot, learners had boycotted the classes and they were not supposed to be in the street at the time, the mother was at work.
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“When we arrived in court we were told that there is nobody to be blamed and we never got justice for my daughter,” said emotional Julia who held a remembrance ceremony for her late daughter this past weekend.
The mother’s emotions escalated as she explained that although they did not find justice for their daughter back then, she is now happy that the law is taking its course in other murder cases.
Julia was fetched from work to be told that her daughter was gunned down and other learners had taken her to the hospital where she later met her death. When she arrived her baby girl’s blood was all over the street.
The bereaved is struggling to find closure because every year when the day her daughter died comes, she always gets ill and has had two-stroke attacks because it is difficult to forget the tragic way her beloved died.
“It’s difficult to accept even today that’s why I organised this day so that I can find healing and people can pray for me to get closure.
“Thank you to St Andrews Anglican church, African National Congress Government and the community for their support and prayers,” she said.
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