Stars Fighting Fertility Issues

Before you yawn let me tell you this ‘gentle sister,’ this post isn't about Generation's Dineo Mashaba a magazine editor who can't fall pregnant and is pulling all stops to give her cheating husband an heir. This is real life, real stories and phenomenal women who amid tough times managed to entertain and educate us through their respective jobs.           

Rockville actress and producer Connie Ferguson that we grew up watching portraying wealthy Karabo Moroka for years has had her ovaries removed. Connie has come out strong and I can say life is good for her and her follow acting hubby Shona Ferguson and their two daughters. By the way Shona’s mother is Xhosa. *rolling eyes*

Former beauty queen turned businesswoman and The Link presenter Lerato Kganyago has recently had two fibroids that were size of a tennis ball removed from the wall of her womb. She revealed on Zaziwa that though this decreases her chances of conceiving she believes all things are possible and she would love to have kids of her own one day with Moroka Swallows footballer Katlego Mashego.

 

Nthabi  Mphahlele actress famous for playing Muvhango's mad Meiki who married her sweetheart early this year journalist Dennis Tau opened up to Real Magazine about an excruciating pain she had to live with as young person. The inflicting pain is said to put her conceiving chances at a risk.

These gorgeous women are a testament of not allowing your situation to dictate your life. They didn't sit down and wondered why them, but have embraced their womanhood and didn’t hide behind their celebrity status.

 

 

Face For What Vele?

It pains me that my sisters and brothers have decided to personify diseases and ungodly practices.

It’s okay to accept that an illness has made your body a host but don't make it yours. Ayinguwe tu kaloku!

It does not and shouldn't define who you are. Do not allow it to limit your abilities.

I was so proud when I saw a woman who has full blown aids wearing a sleeveless top and going about her day.

People tend to stigmatize certain diseases an act like only promiscuous people acquire them.

Andiyazi but we should move away from discriminating people based on what they have contracted. Umntu ngumntu  regardless of an opportunistic illness that made their body a victim.

For years I had asthma and needed to be oxygenated whenever the rainy season loomed. And it took a woman of God at Christian boarding school I attended to free me from 'my chronic illness.'

She asked if I had really accepted Christ if so then my family should testify by seeing Jesus the healer evident in my life.

Bear in mind when she said this, I couldn't breathe and needed my 'oxygen' desperately but her words haunted me and I took it to God in prayer.

Some believe, you can outgrow asthma but I believe it was the finished work of Calvary that healed me. It’s all about stretching your faith.

Doubtlessly I believe in awareness and taking the necessary precautions but we should not humanize diseases. And be okay with being called the face of ... And of ...

Don't brand yourself as the positive one. When you step into a room let's not see you as that woman living with HIV and Aids. You are more than that. You were created in the image and likeness of God. A virgin had to give birth for you to be here. Meaning the impossible had to be made possible for you and I.

Kwaye self-pity is never an option. Stay strong.

You must be wondering, why most of my titles have question marks nhe? Ingxaki I have questions than answers. That I cannot help!!!

Burial Societies For Celebrities

Death catches all of unexpectedly. No one really prepares for their departure though we are fully aware that we are indeed visitors on this earth.

But what makes people who bank not lesser than 30 grand on a good week not to pay burial societies?

Like I have said before life is nothing but a breath and it is for the living. The minute you gasp the last heavy breath and kiss this earth goodbye. Your book gets stored in the land of those that we will only see on the second coming of our Lord and saviour Jesus the Nazarene. After resurrection that is!!!

I too have contributed to a celebrity's burial. It was one of those cases that the star, now a shadow of their former self is  forced by a record label owner to make his/her last television appearance by begging the public to assist them on mounting health bills which quickly turns into burial assistance as their health sadly deteriorates.

My question though is, you have seen how a number of people who once used the fast lane you like have ended up being buried in government cemeteries  or their family had to go to money lenders uyokuquma elihlazo ulishiyileyo.

Why has it never crossed your mind to pay or save for desperate times?

Retailers, football clubs are now cashing up in the burial industry.  Some people are even saying owning a funeral parlor is good way of making money.

I don't know the clauses of the contract that an artist and a recording company signs but it must be compulsory for both parties to have a written agreement of debiting certain amount of money that will be fixed for the artist's burial.

I know its not easy to pay money for years and not having someone dying but should a person die then it would be of great help.

Plus it would cut some slack those insurance ads that the SABC forces us to watch!

Safe Abortion

Is it really safe? Is it safe to end someone’s life that has not even started?

Amazingly our bill of rights says everyone has a right to life but in this regard it does not apply.

Everywhere I go I see these SAFE ABORTION posters. And I do not entirely blame the Dr Mamuyandichaza’s because clearly the business is in demand.


Excuse my wild mind but don’t the abortionists worry about what will happen to the foetus?

It’s unlike going to a dentist and asking for the rotten tooth afterwards to see what has been giving you sleepless nights.

Ending someone’s life should not be quick and easy. "30 minutes pain free" disgusts me.

I know the decision has not been reached easy and a lot of thought has been given to this but still it does not make it right.

How do you even begin thinking of aborting a six month old ‘foetus’? I am neither a doctor nor a medical practitioner but I do know by this time the baby has developed into a human being.

My government has and is discouraging back street abortion as it often endangers the life of the person thinking of aborting. But why are they not arresting back street  'doctors'?

When you engage in an unprotected sex, what do you expect? And turning to shortcuts with everlasting consequences because you do not want to take responsibility of your actions is unbelievable.

I do not question the decision of rape survivors who had to abort because they did not want to relive the ordeal but I would advise them to think twice about the decisions thereafter.

Zintanda, let’s make informed choices about our lives and not live for the moment and remember whatever you do today will catch up with you in the future.’Ayizukushiya le-bus.’

Enkosi.

International Women's Day Message

I once read a story in The Herald about a Zimbabwean girl who was born HIV positive, she was sharing her challenges of living with HIV and you know back in the day, we didn’t have Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission - if ur mama tested HIV + chances were u were gonna be born with the virus.

So this gal attends a Pentecostal church and there u r kinda expected to get married at certain age and she was afraid of what her 'Prospect Husband ' would sae n that pierced my heart so hard n it hasn't healed.

Women are brought up with the mentality of being a better wife, not a better CEO hence the Xhosa sayin ikhaya lentombi lisemzini. We are more than that while I was staying at a Shebeen a woman customer fondled my hips & asked me if I can sing to her disappoint I cant even hit a flat note but she assured me with a body shape like mine I am guaranteed a husband and I ddnt blame her cause some ppl think we go 2 Church to be wed.

Some heathens sae they will only go to kerk when they want a wife. There are so many stories I could tell u about this. All in all women's place is still viewed by the society we live in inferior & women abuse is an everydae thang in SA. We still have a long...