Being a parent 5.6.2020 11:00 am
BOOK EXTRACT: ‘I would come back home…in tears. I felt so frustrated after every court appearance.’
In her debut book Author of Let’s Have Some Tea, Mantombi Makhubele sparks a single moms’ conversation through sharing her journey of divorce and becoming a sole provider for her two daughters and coming out stronger on the other side.
I remember arriving at the Randburg Magistrate parking lot for our first court appearance in my VW Golf Chico. We both arrived at the same time. He was in a white Audi Q7 SUV with his new wife and an entourage of his brothers and cousins to defend himself on why he could not afford to pay child maintenance.
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‘When undiagnosed or not effectively treated, ADHD often sees children being unfairly labelled as naughty, delinquent, unteachable and adults as lazy or incompetent.’