The debt of humanity to nature seems to be only payable through death. How nature comes back to us and makes a demand for our exit from its eternal peace, is what humanity has been unable to predict and control. We are thus all in a natural space that has many dates with us; these are the date to be born...up to the date to depart. In the interceding period we have so many other dates to have various encounters with fellow men and fellow citizens of nature. One of the dates that Zweli Mphehle had was one that I remembered the day he or I knew him. I met him as a neighbor in Doornpoort, where we both lived until I left him there. I then met him as a fellow parent at a crèche where our children were in the same age cohort. These dates were to be further expanded in our professional lives when we met as active members of the South African Association of Public Administration and Management. It is this SAAPAM date within which I had a better revelation of the mortal Zweli and ...
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