A South African man who shot his pregnant fiance dead before killing himself will be posthumously married to her at the weekend.
| When he sez "I do," that's gonna empty the hall PDQ... |
Police Captain Mohale Ramatseba said David Masenta shot 25-year-old Mgwanini Molomo after a quarrel before turning the gun on himself. But Johannesburg's Sowetan newspaper said family and friends wanted to remember them as a happy couple destined for a happy life together.
| "Like they had until he... ummm... blew her away." |
The groom's corpse would be dressed in a cream suit and his bride's in a gown for the ceremony, at which a priest in the rural village of Ceres in Limpopo will bless the union before the two are buried after a two-week honeymoon in Jamaica, the Sowetan said. "In African culture, there is no death -- there is merely the separation of body and soul," said cultural expert Mathole Motshekga.
| "... and the point where decomposition begins." |
"It is also important because the families are married together. This does not mean the relationship has irretrievably broken down."
| "Only that they're titzup." |
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