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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“A young girl must always remain confident”. This is what Wanda’s mama says to her all the time. Wanda has a beautiful head of hair that her mum proudly combs every morning but as soon as she leaves the house, no one knows that Wanda rushes to school and makes the big switch from her […]

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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.’