SA SENT A BABY MAMA TO MOURN RB?
Lesebo Mokorosi wrote:
So South Africa sent Mama Barbara Masekela as an envoy to Former President Rupiah Banda’s funeral in Zambia? And both South Africa and Zambia saw this as “fine”?…..
I don’t usually make it a habit to talk about older people’s affairs but when and where I feel that a certain woman’s toes are stepped on, I worry….this time I’m wearing Mama Thandi Banda’s shoes.
Mme Barbara Masekela happens to mother a child with the late RB. So in local lingo, we’d call her “Baby-mama”.
Now here is my problem: Did South Africa found it morally fit to send mama Barbara to represent the whole country….why? So an ex girlfriend can be glorified to openly mourn a married man?
Please do not tell me it’s possibly because of the son they share/d because even ex-wives never get to openly mourn ex-husbands……they remain in the background…their time has passed.
Do we ever sit down and reflect on the pain we are causing women though? I bet mme Thandi was expected to “understand” because that’s all we ever do as women….”understand”.