Minnie Dlamini – The Storyteller
Minnie Dlamini hasn’t given a detailed interview in three years. Deliberately so. Her brother Khosini died in September 2019 after having suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm and being on life support for 23 days before succumbing to his condition. “Devastating. Absolutely devastating,” she says of the ways in which his death has affected the family.
“We were at Christmas at home this year with the whole family, with my kid and my brother’s kids, and someone was missing. It’s not easy. I mean, three years seems like a long time but every time I hear something or… I woke up this morning missing him, and I walked in here in his pants – because I took one of his pants that I really like – and I walked in wearing them because I just missed him a lot this morning.” We stop the interview momentarily as she gathers herself after breaking down in tears.
