“Do you want to be made well?” He asked. I remember the first time I experienced the pain of rejection in my life. I was thirteen years of age and at the time I had no clear understanding of what it was and what it meant. It had been a few months after my mother had gone to be with the Lord and life was somewhat trying to get back to normal. I was in boarding school and all I could feel was how detached from everything I had become because there had been a deep void left in the…
Have you ever faced a situation where the road ahead seems impossible to tackle, where the journey seems impossible to complete or where the destination seems impossible to reach? I’ve been here many times in my life. When I thought my 8-year relationship was coming to an end, when I thought I could never get out of the despair I felt I was in, the rut I created for myself and the constant back and forth sinning. When I thought I would never be able to let go of all that hindered me. We’ve heard many times that God is…
HI SALAMINA, THANK YOU FOR ACCEPTING OUR INTERVIEW INVITE. WHAT WAS YOUR CHILDHOOD LIKE, AND HOW DID IT IMPACT THE WOMAN YOU ARE TODAY? WHAT ARE THE VALUES THAT SHAPED YOU? My formative years were spent living with my grandparents, on my mom’s side, in Zebediela, Moletlane in Limpopo. Later, we (my siblings and I) lived with our parents in Ga-sekorokoro, close to the hospital where my mother worked as a social worker. I loved my childhood and have many happy memories of travelling to Durban for the December holidays and Christmas time in Zebediela with all my cousins, aunts…
MAY YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT YOURSELF? WHO IS MMATEMA, AND WHERE DID YOU GROW UP? WHAT WERE YOU LIKE AS A KID Mmatema is a 32-year-old woman,born in Zebeidelia,Limpopo raised by Disego and Lucky Moraila.I went to Matladi High School,and moved to Dereke Kobe Secondary School to finish my high schooling. I then furthered my studies at TUT known as the Tshwane University of Technology at the Soshanguve campus, I obtained a B-tech degree in applied languages known as Linguistics. During my tertiary years, I entered a well-known competition twice known as South African IDOLS. I am a young…
