HOW A PHOTO WHICH DISSAPPEARED 40 YEARS AGO LED TO THE ERECTION OF A WOMAN’S MONUMENT - HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY!!!

2010 was the best year ever as is the year my father (a few months before he died at age 86) gave me a photo of me and my late mother who had died in 1971. The memory of my mother’s funeral a few months after the photo was taken, when I was 6 years, remains vivid 41 years after she passed on. As part of honoring women on women’s day, we erected a monument at the grave of my mother - in a 450 hectare land which was forcefully taken away from our family by the apartheid state in 1971. It is my family’s desire that the government, which has so far failed to return the land back to the rightful owners, can do the honorable thing and returns the land which our family has lived, and farmed for over 150 years. This blog is dedicated to the memory of my mother and to all mothers throughout the world.

1.    “God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers”.
Jewish proverb

2.     “Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly”. Sarah Malin

3.     “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children”. William Makepeace Thackeray

4.     “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible”. Marion C. Garretty

5.    “All I am or can be I owe to my angel Mother”.  Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President

6.    “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers”. Harriet Beecher Stowe

7.    “A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them”.
Victor Hugo

8.    “That best academy, a mother's knee”. James Russell Lowell, poet, critic and diplomat

9.    “Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own”. Aristotle

10. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children”. William Makepeace Thackeray

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Meshack Khosa

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