My fatherhood experience [A thread]
#FathersDay
Being a father to my daughter Keitumetse has been the most challenging yet rewarding experience of my life. I’ve literally been to the end of the world & faced many storms trying to be a father she would one day be proud of.
The first thing I do when I go eye shopping is to check the boot space because my daughter’s wheelchair. Khawuyenze lapho Thixo wami ndiyacenga. Nani there by
@BMW_SA
please sponsor this single father & his baby girl for at least 3 months ndiyacenga 🙏🏾🙌🏾🙏🏾
For the very first time in her life, baby girl is controlling her head movement tonight. The 7 days and 7 nights in hospital were worth it. This is a small victory for us…We thank God even for such victories too. I never thought I would live to see this day! Ebenezer 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾.
Only the hardest of hearts can fail to be moved by MacG’s proposal to his now fiancé. She previously said no to his proposal three times already but tonight she said YES ❤️😭😢😘🥰😍❤️🎉🎉
#PodcastAndChill
#RoadTo1Million
Black Coffee sorted Enhle Mbali out and so did MacG. There was not even a mention of her name. It was all about his life and career as a musician.
#podcastandchillwithmacg
Being a single father to a special needs teenage baby girl is really not for the fainthearted. The experience will put you through a litmus test. My daughter makes it worth my while though.
We just bought new pyjamas from
@WOOLWORTHS_SA
. Baby girl said I must tweet Woolies to show them. Soon she will need to actually open an Instagram account this one ☺️☺️☺️
@AbednegoChauke
@mohale_motaung
Mohale and Somizi are human too like the rest of us. Let Mohale deal with this in his own way. If him asking his more 200k followers for prayers is what he feels like asking, please let him be. If you can’t help someone, at least don’t hurt them. Please don’t add salt to injury
She told me she wants a birthday cake with a fairytale princess for her party at school today. I told her she’s my fairytale princess and the result is a cake animated with my fairytale princess 🎊🎂🎉🎁👑
Happy birthday to my baby girl as she hits 11 today, thus firmly ushering in her pre-teens. The past 11 years rearranged & refined me as my life took a 360 degrees turn. Ebenezer 🎉🎉🎉
Happy birthday to my baby girl Keitumetse Mmone Mathomo Mokwena as she turns 13 today. Lucky thirteen looks good on you baby girl! A decisive young lady you are 🎉🎂 🎂 🎈
However, given everything that has happened, given another chance to walk the same road, I would do it all over again. For I believe being a father to daughter is my highest calling yet in this world.
Bra Bob Mabena sent me a DM a day after Father’s Day applauding me on my struggles in raising a child living with disability and subsequently followed me. Life is so fragile guys 💔💔💔
#RIPBobMabena
I didn’t expect such an outpouring of love, support, encouragement & all that you are saying on this
#FathersDay
thread of mine. I was just simply sharing my story hoping to inspire at least 1 father out there. Thank you! Now y’all got me all emo...lemme go do a young 10 km run
3 months after she was born, she developed a condition called hydrocephalus. She would need a R90k brain surgery which Discovery medical aid refused to pay. I’ll never forgive them for what they put me through. They are no different from others tho. All are white monopoly capital
When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls - Ted Grant
I’m so devastated to wake up to the news of Cheslie Kryst’s untimely passing. As soon as I read the news, all I could think about was how Zozibini Tunzi is taking this, especially since she was so kind to Zozi when she was in the US, & they formed great friendship. RIP Cheslie 🕊
Just this year alone, we have been through enough to last us an entire lifetime…I’m really drained, emotionally and physically! I’m taking her to her mother for school holidays two weeks early. The punches I been taking in the background are enough. I just want to exhale for the
Between late 2016 & mid 2018, my finances took a nosedive because I was trying to save my daughter’s life. In between everything...trying to live my life, I lost romantic relationships...some loved my daughter...some didn’t like her. I would make excuses when friends warned me.
Unisa has already recruited me to do my PhD here and want to offer me a bursary so they can change my title from Mr to Dr. Plus, my supervisor & I are already on WhatsApp basis ✊🏾☺️
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On the occasion of my daughter Keitumetse Mmone Mathomo Mokwena’s 11th birthday before daddy spends the whole day in work meetings. Happy birthday my princess 👑👑 👑 🎉🎉🎉 Ebenezer 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
In between my daughter’s never ending hospitalisations and theatre visits for never ending operations in 2011 & between 2016 & 2018, a handful of good Samaritans reached out to me to assist financially with all the trips I had to do taking my daughter to all kinds of specialists
I miss the days I used to be thin. Right now this t-shirt and tights are huge I can’t even fit in them no more. Hamstring injury is really doing me dirty. How the mighty have fallen.
@paballo_patsa
Imagine if Phathu Makwarela never worked as a writer at Muvhango where he met Sindi Dlathu. Writers also deserve their dues
#TheRiver1Magic
In between, there was a court case that lasted for a good 5 years (2012-2017) resulting in a host of health problems for me. Ultimately...no one could withstand all the challenges that came with me trying to raise and provide for, and be there for my quadriplegic daughter.
Not that I blame them; my issues were just simply too complex for anyone to handle, myself included. So much so that at some point I got admitted to a psychiatric ward in hospital, diagnosed with major depression.
I am Tswana by blood and grew up Pedi. I’ve a good mind of going to buy myself two bottles of water at Clicks there Boulders dressed like this & go to give Jose Maponyane coupla lessons about embracing all African identities. Eurocentrism must fall and Afrocentrism must rise ✊🏾✊🏾
It’s been a whirlwind raising her and being a present father. An experience I treasure the most. Yet, if I knew beforehand what would lie ahead before she was conceived, I would have elected not to be a father.