Honest  and  True  South Africa

WHAT HAPPENED TO MOTHERS AND MOTHERHOOD..?

 

Just take a good look around you and you will fully comprehend my question. It will not help us in any way to keep ignoring facts about the deterioration of our worth as a people. We have listened to people pre-determine and determine our lives and to date, we face the daunting challenge of being worthless. I grew up knowing that our mothers are very respectful. Our mothers respected themselves such that we had no option but to respect them accordingly. Things have since changed, and changed for the worst.

 

Today when you raise any concern about how our mothers hold and present themselves before us, lest we get our mothers being aggresively defensive. There are many examples to give and one that comes to mind is the issue of dress code. Our mothers walk around half naked and there are many justifications for that. Granted or not, the truth of the matter is that our mothers know just as much as we know that most of their dress code these days are too harmful and demining to say the least.

 

Mothers sleep with boys young enough to be their sons and justify that at the expense of love. This makes me wonder as to where has this so-called love been all these years of our child and boyhoods. Mothers are the best teachers we have. Whatever they teach goes. Many of those who are honest and true to themselves know this as a fact. These days "fa ngwana a roga rragwe, mmagwe o a tshega".

I grew up and matured to fully comprehend that during my childhood, mothers instilled descipline whilst fathers where feared. That understanding is no more. Mothers condone more of what we grew up to know as tabboo when it came to them. We are slowly but surely loosing our mothers to nowadays. There is more justfication  to more of what we know to clearly be wrong.

 

Raising realistic concerns about our mothers calls for dishonesty and justification of the wrongs by those who claim to represent the interests of women. Not that women should not be represented and protected, we need to be as honest and true as possible when it comes to the reasons in this regard.

 

Artificial look and foreign norms are taking us backwards and thats a fact. Mothers, wake up and smell the coffee before its too late. I challenge all mothers to take a closer look at themselves. You need to self-introspect and tell the truth about what your findings are about yourselves. Your children needs you, your partners needs you, communities needs you, the nation needs you and the whole wide world desperately needs you.

 

...mothers please come back and be mothers that we know you are capable of being...
 

...I am sure that this is not too much to ask for...