High honour was bestowed on the late well-known traditional leader Vhamusanda Vho-Rembuluwani Nduvheni during the annual Youth Conference of the United African Apostolic Church (UAAC) held at Thengwe Secondary School in Mutale in December.
The UAAC, under the leadership of Archbishop Itani Mureri, organised the customary year-end conference in remembrance of Nduvheni, who had sadly passed away on 14 January 2021.
Nduvheni was one of the longest-serving traditional leaders of the Ha-Rammbuda Tribal Council, also having worked with the former Venda Minister of Justice, Thovhele John Ratshilumela Rammbuda, and he had served as the chairperson of the UAAC's traditional leaders body.
A candle was lit in Nduvheni's memory from the onset of the proceedings and remained burning until the conference was concluded. A token of appreciation for the role he had played in the church and the community at large was handed to the late traditional leader's three wives "so that the family could always remember how the church valued his hard work," said Archbishop Mureri.
"He worked under my father, the late Archbishop EMM Mureri, and his ideas and input had helped with the establishment of many branches of the church in, around and outside the country, such as in Zimbabwe, among others. Someone of his calibre can never be replaced," said Mureri.
Mr Eddie Nduvheni, one of the late traditional leader's children, said they were grateful to the UAAC for remembering their father and the good work he had done.