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The first time I met Dr Tshepo Motsepe, we were sitting together at an event where former President Mbeki and I were scheduled to speak about the importance of encouraging South Africans abroad to return home to build the country. I was suffering from a cold and sneezing uncomfortably. A highly qualified doctor, she texted her driver a prescription for me and before long I just saw medicine being delivered. I have seen her a few times since in different circumstances and each time I left with one impression of a kind, caring and nurturing human. A mother.
When I see the regrettably unAfrican social media critique of her at 71, I wondered what happened to us. Our humanity and culture.
Looking at our own mothers, at 71, many would have lost a step or syllable or two, and have wrinkles that merit the journeys they have travelled: Raising children and communities. Building careers and families. All the while being underestimated; taken for granted; earning less while doing the most; being abused and used; walked all over and not appreciated.
Despite our best efforts, we can't dictate what nature serves us. Certainly, I don't know where or how most of our grandmothers, mothers, sisters or aunts would look like at 71. Or how anyone of us would. But I sure hope and pray I would be as dignified, qualified and respected as Dr. Tshepo Motsepe is in her field and society.
She has bothered no one. Has never been in the papers for the wrong things. Never sought the limelight or approval of public. And obviously hasn't resorted to the short-cuts most of us take with botox, bleaching, BBL, weaves, and the likes that seek to defy or redefine nature.
She is like most of our mothers, and just happens to be in the public eye because she married the most public of figures, the President of the Republic, Cyril Ramaphosa. She deserves the respect and adulation we pay our mothers and women like her who have carved their own paths and successes. Unless what we are reflecting in these social media streets is how we treat our own mothers.
Sakina Kamwendo always ask the right questions. Watch how she gets down to the details on the #RandManipulation story. Make sure you watch the full interview on YouTube.
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Thanks God we are dealing with exceptional circumstances in the Billy Downer matter. Just imagine if this frivolity by Dali & Zuma was allowed to happen in an ordinary matter.
Every monied Zuma & Sodi would just cook up a fake anxiety against a public prosecutor and chase that prosecutor with private prosecution, just to delay ever being charged himself
What Dali & Zuma are doing in this Court is a joke .
Everyone laughs at you when you tell them about these types of jokes by Zuma
It must be stopped. It is now risking undermining the good name of our judiciary
TEMBEKA NGCUKAITOBI SC
Jacob Zuma and Dali Mpofu must be stopped from running a cynical manipulation BS
What they are doing is nonsense
Judges must put an end to it.
TEMBEKA NGCUKAITOBI
Zuma wants to continue abusing the legal system , but now he wants the courts and judges to help him along
Why are judges allowing this abuse
Zuma is a vexatious litigant. We have counted a minimum of 12 cases where he had abused courts time with his jokes. He lost all of them
He is just being vindictive towards Ms Maughan. He doesn't want Karyn Maughan to report about his criminality
Look at the joy of his supporters whenever Karyn Maughan appears in court
They have made a spectre and National joke of our criminal justice system
It must be stopped
Sit back and watch an absolute legal masterclass from one of South Africa’s best lawyers ever, Adv Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC as he smashed The EFF’s disgraceful Dali Mpofu out the park. A massive loss for Dali and Jacob Zuma loading with punitive cost order.
DALI MPOFU IS USELESS