Sat May 25 23:40:34 SAST 2013

Gran feeds 17 mouths

Aug 20, 2012 | Mamodima Monnakgotla | 37 comments

Widowed mom relies on R1,480 and handouts

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Sat May 25 23:40:34 SAST 2013 ::
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Aug 20, 2012

rollingdeep

WOW!!! wonder wen will dis HOME AFFAIRS nightmares come to an end....
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Aug 20, 2012

mambozana

Where are the childrens parents? please people stop having unprotected sex if you cant take care of your children, living them with grandparents whom you dont even support. Valani amathanga please.
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Aug 20, 2012

br33

hai suka nna ke lapile ke batho ba tla dirang bana ba bantshi ba tseba gore ba hlophega nxa!
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Aug 20, 2012

Xinyelababeni

@Mambozana dont come here and expose yourself boss. didnt you hear 5 of them past away. clearly common sense is not common to you or you are rather heartless.
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Aug 20, 2012

Chichi7

Free clinics for the damn condoms and contraceptives, free RDP house, Govt grant and so on..... what more do they want the Govt to do?

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Aug 20, 2012

thandoluhle

Xinyelababeni
@Mambozana dont come here and expose yourself boss. didnt you hear 5 of them past away. clearly common sense is not common to you or you are rather heartless.
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ok but did they have have the children alone?
where are the other parents of the kids?
why allow all your children have kids without marriage???
why did she have so many kids when she's clearly jobless and lacking any skills she can trade with?

OH I KNOW---WAITING FOR GOVERNMENT GRANTS!!!!!
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Aug 20, 2012

Tsatsatsa

It amazing how fast they (Government Departments) when Newspapers intervenes. This is the plight of millions other families in our country......

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Aug 20, 2012

thandoluhle

MORALS OF THIS STORY

- don't make babies if you are not married or at least in a committed relationship with a responsible partner
- don't make babies if you are not ready
-dont make babies if you don't have a job or a roof over your head
-dont make babies and dump then on your parents because you cannot care for them


STOP BRINGING BABIES INTO THIS WORLD TO SURFER

SIES MAN!!!!!!
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Aug 20, 2012

Xinyelababeni

@Thandoluhle I dont think what you are saying is fair to this old woman. how many children break the parent's rules. clearly this woman didnt go and sleep around her children did and unfortunately she is the one who has to live with the consequences.
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Aug 20, 2012

McLoving

Ezi b'hlungu azipheli!! Sorry magriza kuzo lunga.
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Aug 20, 2012

QueenTT

Grandparents are suffering because of their children careless mistake... Government must come up with something to minimize this...Abstain, condomise, is not working...I propose not more than Three children for every women married or not...after three children the hospital make sure the would not be any children...
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Aug 20, 2012

iPhone4

She had 10 kids no wonder nabazukulu bebaningi so kuyazalwa nje kulomuzi ayi
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Aug 20, 2012

MmaMorutiChris

Unfortunately I have to agree with Thandoluhle.
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Aug 20, 2012

xhosagirl

Mama im proud of you for being a hard worker(clean toilets, recycle plastic bottles and papers and sell whatever useful thing) but as for your kids making babbies knowing that we will feed them with our taxes.
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Aug 20, 2012

JungleFever

Why is it that the children that are under 18 are not under social developments care that is at places of safety or orphanages cuz they are not only for orphans but children that really need help.
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Aug 20, 2012

milagro

PEOPLE u should remeber that some ppl are blessed with childreen no matter what they do they are just blessed.@thandoluhle, not evrythng is perfct 4 everyone even u an da poor grandmother did not ask for her childreen to past away since she did not mention the fathers it means dar are not interested or they are no where to be found.lets not judge couse we dont know the pain that its in that family an y is the relatives or fathers not helping but if we have business advise or we can help lets do so.
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Aug 20, 2012

imd

oh so home affairs has been aware n doing whst exactly????

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Aug 20, 2012

2nevvy4u

Home affairs fix this so that mama Manya can get forster care grants for all the children and live a better life.
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Aug 20, 2012

eltybots

DIS PROBLEM IS EVERYWEY EVEN N MI COUNTRY I RECALL A STORRY OF 24 CHILDEREN IN ONE OF LOCASL NEWSPAPER N OLD WOMAN LUKIN AFTA HIER GRANDCHILDREN.EVEN GOVERNMENT GRANTS WEY NOT ENUF 4 DA WHOLE FAMILY.. THE GRANNY SHUD B TAKEN CARE OF BY HER CHILDREN NOT DA OTHER WAY ROUND.CHILREN BCUMS ORPHANS COS OF HIV PANDEMIC AND IRRESSPONSIBLE FATHER WHO FAIL 2 SUPPORT THEIR CHILDRE,NNA HELA O TSHWARE HELA JALO NKUKU BA TLA GO BOLOKA MOTHA MONGWE BANABANA BAO.
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Aug 20, 2012

Tsatsatsa

eltybots
DIS PROBLEM IS EVERYWEY EVEN N MI COUNTRY I RECALL A STORRY OF 24 CHILDEREN IN ONE OF LOCASL NEWSPAPER N OLD WOMAN LUKIN AFTA HIER GRANDCHILDREN.EVEN GOVERNMENT GRANTS WEY NOT ENUF 4 DA WHOLE FAMILY.. THE GRANNY SHUD B TAKEN CARE OF BY HER CHILDREN NOT DA OTHER WAY ROUND.CHILREN BCUMS ORPHANS COS OF HIV PANDEMIC AND IRRESSPONSIBLE FATHER WHO FAIL 2 SUPPORT THEIR CHILDRE,NNA HELA O TSHWARE HELA JALO NKUKU BA TLA GO BOLOKA MOTHA MONGWE BANABANA BAO.
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I will report you to your High School teacher, who did not tell you not to write a sentence in capital letters.
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Aug 20, 2012

galaxy4

I DNT BLAME THE OLD LADY COS THE MOTHERS AND FATHERS ABOKHOTHANI.


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Aug 20, 2012

spatch

Wow! in the picture it looks like gran has no pants on!


Otherwize apart from loosing her mind every now and again, then finding it lying around, she is a bond-free home-owner, gets some free electricty and pleanty free water to wash her vegies, gets R1500 pm mahala, and only 2 of the family are unemployet.

Not too shabby, and no hint of having to eat cow dung like those Zimbobweans.
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Aug 20, 2012

9janavy

I am sorry but i don't feel pity for these people.When will some people in this country stop waiting for handouts? So what if the home affairs bungled their name? Are their hands and legs broken? No!

The adult children (except for the mentality ill one) should get off their lazy ass and do something to earn a living.I know people who came to this country with absolutely nothing but managed to succeed by working their way from the bottom and they never had an ID.

There are a lot of small businesses these guys can set up to make some income e.g

They can go to the Taxi ranks and car parks and set us make shift car washes.the can buy sweets and fruits from the depots and resell them at the taxi rank.The males can go and work in construction ,there are always unskilled jobs available in the construction industry. They can also buy clipper and set up a makeshift barbing saloon in the taxi rank or their neighborhood to make a living.The list of things they can do in SA is limitless.

People like this family should stop having this give ,give mentality and actually go out and mingle.This woman has at least 4 adult children who are able bodied not to mention at least one grandchild who is of the age of 20 but no ,the lazy choose to wait for grandma to provide the goodies.She already has a free RDP house ,that is more than some people get from their Government in other parts of the world.

Where i come from ,we never sit back and give up or wait for the Government to give us freebies.We get the fxck up and make it happen,no retreat no surrender! Remember this is Africa,we all have sh1tty Governments so don't expect much from them.Just pave your way with hard work ,dedication as well as financial discipline and you will pull through.SA is a wonderful country with a lot of opportunities that is why foreigners thrive here.The unemployed locals should mix and learn from foreigners on how to be entrepreneurial instead of always waiting for the Government to solve their problems.
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Aug 20, 2012

Mphorozza

It is bad I must say but the question remains where are the parents of the kids, Gogo alone will not make it the parents are needed here.
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Aug 20, 2012

Solm

Magogo is suppose to be enjoying her remaining days but she is stuck in this fix. @9janavy, this is the desease we SAns suffer from the most.Our government said all we have to do is vote them and they will do everything for us.Well people are still voting and waiting.There is no substitute for hardwork.
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Aug 20, 2012

2nevvy4u

mama register those 11 kids for forster care grant and get R9020.00 everymonth life will be great.
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Aug 20, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

One of Manya's wishes is to get her house fixed.
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already the house is f.ree and she wants it fixed..........

Dman I cannot for the life of me understand why people have so many kids and cannot afford them. This sense of entiltlement (grants) must done away with. Kids cannot be taken care of on grants only.........

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Aug 20, 2012

Budapat

eish ja neh, all im saying
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Aug 20, 2012

CHANGEISGOOD

haaii nee maan, why make kids if you are not working,

This is now magriza's problem, nxa!
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Aug 20, 2012

Thulijudithlady111

Waze wavelelwa ugogo....
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Aug 20, 2012

THEOZA

Seriously SAs we like to blame the governement even when it is not necessary, people should stop UKUZALA period. Let's face it as much as we voted and blah, blah, blah we don't vote for such, opportunities are so many we just have to make sure that we make use of them. People in this country have stopped thinking, I'm from a township and people will tell you that they do not get jobs & if you ask them when and where did they go look fo one their answer is" people only hire their relatives or ppl from other Provinces"there are still old SAs in their mid twenties who doesn't even know what Z83 is? No man, SAs are lazy to think, are lazy to work, are lazy to go to school, are just lazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Aug 20, 2012

akaPENdEBAHLEN

17 mouths to feed.No! This is not on. We the children and grandchildren should take care of our grannies not the other way round.Why open your legs if you know you can't even feed yourself SIES.Most probably the adults have not gone to school.How can you make your mother take care of you,raise you,you get pregnant,she raises your child and you get pregas again.Gorvement shud have a law that closes the filopian tubes of these women.Piesed.MXxxxx
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Aug 20, 2012

mokudubete

eish is painful but this subject our old grannies to argony,i wish we learn from this painful situations and learn to be responsible.
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Aug 21, 2012

eisleben

@thandoluhle
You must be my mental cousin. In this day and age I say there are accidents and there is family planning. There rest is ... oh, dear, pass me that concoction over there. Invisibility calls.
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Aug 21, 2012

kudi

@mambozana
Where are the childrens parents? please people stop having unprotected sex if you cant take care of your children, living them with grandparents whom you dont even support. Valani amathanga please.

This is so true the poor grand mother cannot even eat her pension ha monate - the daughters are busy making babies and dumping them moo ho mamakhulu jooooh this is a sin
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Aug 23, 2012

Kitsoboswa

The parents of those kids should be taken to task. They should know that they are responsible for the welbeing of the children.

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Aug 23, 2012

Pontshopontsho

Prevention please
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