Four years fter Kavisha Seevnarain was hurled over the 60m-high Mkomazi Bridge, the brave teacher has tied the knot.
|||Pietermaritzbug - Friday, November 13, 2009, is a date the Seevnarain family of Pietermaritzburg will never forget.
On that night, their only daughter, Pinetown-based high school teacher Kavisha, then 26, was kidnapped at gunpoint in Chatsworth and taken on a hellish ride that culminated with her three kidnappers hurling her over the 60m-high Mkomazi Bridge. Incredibly, despite a shattered pelvis and other injuries, she survived.
Last week Kavisha tied the knot with Durban businessman Nolan Naidoo in a private wedding.
Kavisha’s proud father, Jeewan, said: “It was the most wonderful thing to see our daughter so happy. We give thanks to all the Sunday Tribune readers and others whose prayers sustained us at that terrible time. Everything has worked out for the best.”
Kavisha made a radiantly lovely bride in a bejewelled sari and ceremonial jewellery, with a diadem of flowers on her head and garlands around her neck.
She wore the traditional colours of red and white.
Her groom complemented her colour scheme in a smartly tailored Nehru suit.
They were married in a park setting in Durban.
Although Kavisha said she had agreed with Naidoo that theirs would be a wedding out of the spotlight, she told the Sunday Tribune of her happiness at overcoming the dark episode in her life and finding her ideal partner.
“The wedding was perfect in every way,” she said.
“The events at the bridge could have happened in another lifetime. It’s only four years ago, but it seems a very, very long time.”
The bride said that children were definitely on the agenda. “That will be wonderful when it happens.”
She and her husband have foregone a honeymoon for the time being because she is committed to the progress of her pupils and is completing an MBA degree.
Her newfound happiness has delighted her friends and family, because the independent-minded young woman had seemed in no hurry to marry.
When interviewed last year on the third anniversary of her ordeal, she said: “I don’t know about marriage. I don’t seem to have had much luck with relationships.”
Even so, she confided that she was in the early stages of a new relationship with “a special man who might just be the one”.
Kavisha’s assailants have a long time to consider their cold-blooded attempt on her life.
Swift justice was meted out to the men in the Durban Magistrate’s Court just weeks after the attack. Wandile Nsibande, then 20, got 25 years and Sibusiso Dlamini, then 29, was handed 40 years’ imprisonment. A 16-year-old accomplice was placed under correctional supervision for his role in the attack.
Sunday Tribune