Shololo Koma: Should he be remembered or forgotten?

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Few people have lived a life so rich, so barren, so tumultuous and yet so intriguing as Dr Kenneth Shololo Koma. Standing over his grave in Mahalapye GIDEON NKALA finds why charm, controversy, pity and out-right rejection followed him to his non- descript resting place

When we ask some Mahalapye residents where Dr Kenneth Koma's grave is we hit a blank. Some even suspect that he may not have been buried in Mahalapye at all. Maybe he was left somewhere else, not here for surely someone would know otherwise.

"Was he really buried here?" asks one obviously in doubt herself.
 But indeed Koma lies here. He was buried two years ago in this village. Somewhere.
Others who had heard that he was buried in Mahalapye  somehow thought that he certainly must have been laid to rest at the Mahalapye Secondary School cemetery, after all the cemetery lies at the foot of a school that he had helped to build. That to them would have been a fitting send-off - Koma's grave over-looking the village landmark that he helped set up.

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