The SACP is deeply saddened by the death of Comrade Amos Mbedzi’s mother, Vho Muofhe Tshisikhaiwe Modjadji Netshitungulwane Mundalamo Mbhedzi

[SACP Media & Communications]

South African Communist Party

The SACP is deeply saddened by the death of Comrade Amos Mbedzi’s mother, Vho Muofhe Tshisikhaiwe Modjadji Netshitungulwane Mundalamo Mbedzi

Wednesday, 20 January 2021: The South African Communist Party (SACP) expresses its message of heartfelt condolences to the Mbedzi family on the sore loss encountered. Comrade Amos Mbedzi’s mother, Vho Muofhe Tshisikhaiwe Modjadji Netshitungulwane Mundalamo Mbedzi passed away on Tuesday, 19 January 2021 in Makonde Village, Limpopo Province. Her son, Amos Mbedzi was in 2012 sentenced to 85 years imprisonment by the undemocratic King Mswati’s Tinkundla regime in Swaziland after being wrongfully convicted of murder. Our joint call with the family for his freedom fell on deaf ears until his mother, Vho Muofhe Mbedzi (82), passed away.

Speaking at an SACP organised Release Amos Mbedzi Campaign on 4 July 2014 at Makonde Stadium, Vho Muofhe Mbedzi said “she was praying that Mswati would release her son, so that he could come back home and live with the family”.  Cde Amos’ son, Doctor Mbedzi, then 18, said he missed the kindness and love of his father. “My father was everything to me. Now I just rely on memories we had when he was still here”, Doctor said at the campaign, talking to the Limpopo Mirror. Mswati showed lack of compassion and displayed an utterly uncaring attitude about all that.  

Vho Muofhe Mbedzi, Cde Amos’ mother was born in a royal family on 13 May 1938 at Tshitungulwane Village in Limpopo Province. She actively supported the struggle for liberation in South Africa, inspiring her son Cde Amos to join the joint ANC and SACP military formation, uMkhonto weSizwe. In memory of Vho Muofhe Mbedzi, the SACP reiterates its call for the freedom of Amos Mbedzi, starting with his immediate unconditional release to give his mother a dignified send off. The SACP also expresses its solidarity with the people of Swaziland struggling for democracy and calls for the release of all political prisoners in Swaziland and the return of exiles.

We strongly condemn the refusal by Mswati’s Tinkundla regime to allow Cde Amos to receive medical care.