Soul Dose

Hello my friends, I’d like to tell you a little bit more about my family so you can understand some other things I’ve wanted to write about but couldn’t because I knew you were gonna get confused.

This family is my mother’s side and that is where I grew up.

My grandfather (Elliot) married my grandmother (Mayvis) when she was 18 and I don’t know how old he was. It was 1957 according to my calculations. They had two daughters, Nomusa (my mother) in 1960 and Nondumiso in 1962 (my mom Ndu, she’s like a mother as well).

In 1973 or 1972 my Grandfather met and married another woman (Philippine). She became his second wife and when she came into the marriage she already had a daughter by an ex boyfriend, her name was Nompumelelo.

After they got married they had their first daughter Geli in 1974, then a son Msa in 1976, Msa was followed by another son Mdu in 1979 (he’s my favourite uncle and treats us all equally really), after Mdu came another boy Nkosingiphile in 1981 but we call him Shivile, Shivile was followed by a girl in 1983 Nontobeko but we call her Zinto, the last boy Siphesihle came in 1988.

The following year my grandfather passed away after a long illness but I was too young to understand and I still don’t know what illness he had.

In 1994 Msa was gunned down at night at a neighbours house.

Philippine also passed away in 1999 followed by her daughter nompumelelo in 2002.

My mother had three children, Lindelwa in 1981, Silindile in 1984 and Mandisi in 1985, yeah I know Mandisi came too close for comfort and stole my spot. I remind them of this sometimes when I’m up to something., ha ha ha.

Mom Ndu sadly didn’t have children, I believe she can still have one but only the man upstairs controls that.

All the children have had children of their own except me, Mandisi, Siphesihle, Mbali and Thobeka.

This is the full family from my mother’s side. They live in the same yard but two separate houses.

Sorry for the long post but there are things I’d like to write about especially as I tell parts of what happened to me. I’ve only told up to 2005 and would like to start taking it from there till I reach the part where I woke up and  for me to do it clearly I realized I needed to introduce everyone.

Starting tomorrow I’ll try to blog everyday and will continue the story starting from what happened after my coming of age celebration.

(As for my family on my father’s side we don’t know them very well and they haven’t been active in our lives. I haven’t seen any of them since I woke up and it hurts but it’s life, as long as my father is here I‘m happy)

Cheers and stay beautiful, inside and out.