Fare thee well St. Engenas ZCC members

The victims, who died in Mamatlakala, Limpopo in South Africa on their last journey to Moria, have been in South Africa for over a month following the crash on March 28, just few hours shy from Good Friday driving the nation into an emotional turmoil. This is a story that literally caught fire like winter dried leaves. At an instant, tragedy of losing 45 loyal ZCC regulars became a global affair.

On Tuesday this week, the remains of St Engenas arrived in Botswana ferried by two cargo airplanes after intense forensic examinations to individually identify them after such a long emotional waiting especially for the family of the victims. Botswana has never experienced this. The only time the nation experienced this was in 1978 when 15 members of the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) were ambushed by the white regime of former Rhodesian dictator Ian Smith killing 15 soldiers on the spot. Botswana with her small population, deaths of 15 people was such a huge loss.