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I do have some photographs and know quite a lot about him. My father was actually born in the jail at Hlabisa and spent a lot of time with his father at Hluhluwe.

angloboerwar.com/forum/5-medals-and-awar...ghtening-story#48725

Check the above link. I am sure that Rory will contact you soon.

Brett

Hello Barry

I have sent an e-mail to your "name" which I assume is your e-mail address.

Regards

Rory

Thanks. I am Barry Ernest Lightening, and my father was Ernest Dalton Lightening's eldest son. I do have pictures of my grandfather at his Hluhluwi camp, and a picture of my father at his father's camp which he used to visit from Durban on his old motorcycle.
Regarding the name Mali ya vusa by which he was known, literally translated means one from whom money flows. HE was not wealthy, but the story as I got it from my father was, that on one of their trips returning from Durban witn my grandmother, where he had received his pay, the wagon got stuck in the crocodile infested Umfalozi river. A bunch Zulus helped get the wagon out, and when clear he opened his purse and gave them all his change. The name stuck for many years as even as a teenager on my numerous visits to the Hlabisa/Hluhluwi area, when in conversation with the local people, they still heard the story of Mali ya vusa. This would have been many years later as he died shortly after I was born.
His brother Charles was also very well known in the Maritzburg/Greytown area