This week is not starting off on a good note...
I was very shocked on Monday when I received a call informing me that "They found Lelethu...."
That alone spoke volumes but I still asked..."what do you mean 'they found her"?
The caller told me she was found in her pool......I was shocked! It just seemed like such a cruel death. Besides, she was only 24....too young to die. She still had so much to offer SA and I really don't understand why we keep losing talented young people like this. God, we know you have to take what's yours but we ask you to slow the pace down...please Bawo.
I didn't know Lelethu Lumkwana that well but I'm still saddened by her passing....
I first met her when we went to Nigeria (African Movie Academy Awards) in April this year. I knew her name, having read some of her stuff in True Love magazine and later when she was appointed the editor of True Love Babe and I knew she was one of the judges at the Miss SA Teen last year but that was about it....
Melanie, Lelethu & me...
She was really a sweet person...so calm, so stylish and damn beautiful!
I remember telling her that she would make a great talkshow host because I just thought she was so warm, smart and really a fun and down to earth person. I discovered this just in the week we spent in Lagos/Abuja so I can only imagine how her close friends and family feel about her passing. My deepest condolences to all of you guys, her family, her mom, her 3 year old boy and all her close friends. Akuhlanga lungehlanga bafethu.
Some of Lelethu's articles.......
Talking about Motherhood....WOMEN24
Her Q & A with ......Daily Dispatch
Her take on LAGOS (on an earlier trip)....WOMEN 24
On Loving your body......COSMOPOLITAN
Her thoughts on June 16.....CAMPUS TIMES
More pics on our Naija trip....HERE
Lotsa love gal...lala ngoxolo!
For some reason....I've had this picture as my wallpaper since Nigeria!