By: Natasha Archary
The Memorial Service for award-winning artist Mandla ‘Mampintsha’ Maphumulo is currently underway at Bishop Vusi Dube’s eThekwini Community Church in the Durban CBD.
This despite an apparent war of words between the late artist’s family and that of his widow, Babes Wodumo.
The two families have allegedly been at loggerheads over access to Mampintsha’s body, and were embroiled in a heated altercation outside the funeral parlour on Wednesday, 28 December.
According to the short video which was shared to social media, Mampintsha’s mother, Zamanguni Gumede, was denied access to her son’s lifeless body at the funeral parlour.
Gumede hurled insults to Babes’ family, with other senior members of Mampintsha’s family questioning, “What did she do to deserve this? She just wants to see her son.”
The two families have seemingly put their differences aside to put on a brave face for Mampintsha’s memorial service however, as a number of artists and family members remember the late Big Nuz member who died on Christmas Eve after suffering a stroke.
Mampintsha’s memorial service will be a two part session, with one focused strictly religious and the other an entertainment programme to honour the late muso.
He will be laid to rest on Friday, 30 December.
WATCH: Mampintsha’s Memorial Service
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