A man identified as one Buti Kau, a South African, has shocked people with a rather stunning decision.
Buti Kau who lost his fiancee, Kgomotso Motsepe, just a few days to their wedding, decided to proceed with the marriage by paying the bride price and putting the ring on the dead woman’s finger.
According to Daily Sun SA, Kgomotso, from Mmakau, near Ga-Rankuwa, had been in love with Buti for a while and was supposed to stand in front of the priest and see her man put a ring on her finger.
Just as promised, Buti (47) had already bought the rings and promised to be her man for life.
But then Kgomotso died in the Dr George Mukhari Hospital. Buti has not let the sad passing of his future wife and the mother of their children get in the way of his promises.
He called the two families together and finished paying lobola (bride price) yesterday, the way things were supposed to be on Saturday.
“On the day of her funeral she will be buried with her ring,” he said.
Buti said he was shattered when he heard his wife-to-be was dead. “Things were looking bright for us. We have been struggling since 1985 to have our big day and now that it has arrived, she has been taken from me.”
Kgomotso’s younger sister, Bella Maseko, told Daily Sun the only thing she and her sister spoke about was the wedding. But then they got the news that she had died.
“I got a call to say my sister was dead. I has just spoken to her in the morning and she was happy and didn’t sound sick.”
Bella said that when the Kau family asked them to proceed with the negotiations they accepted without hesitation.
“Buti is our brother and he loved and took care of our sister. We had no reason to deny his family’s proposal.”
Yesterday morning the two families exchanged gifts and Kgomotso became a member of the Kau family.
Norman Motsepe (64), the dead woman’s uncle, said they were very happy to meet the Kau family.
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