SOUL CONNECT PROGRAM: ETOP RADIO 99:4FM WITH PETERSON MATEEKA 1:00PM-1:00AM:-STUDIO CONTACTS:-0352276612/0417779994/0312336994 MONDAY: 17TH-NOV-2014. IN CASE YOU WISH TO SHARE WITH SOUL CONNECT YOUR EXPWERIENCE OF THIS NATURE: petersonmateeka@gmail We were born just two boys to our parents with no sister. Later Dad died and we grew up as moderate orphans. Mum being a widow she failed to pay our fees .One of our uncles with a good heart came in and helped mum to pay our fees. After we both finished O’level same year, the uncle talked to both mum and us that he was getting financially constrained. He said that he would not be able to pay fees for both me and my brother at A ‘level if both opted to join. At once. He therefore said, that if he was to continue helping us, one was to branch to college after senior four, and one continues to HSC.Later when resources became available, the one who will have branched would also be given opportunity to upgrade to a higher level. After a common understanding with mum, it was agreed that I go ahead to join A ‘level while my brother was to branch to college to. My brother did not take this in good faith. He was not happy about being told to branch. He too wanted to join A ‘Level with me same time regardless of the circumstances. He ended up bitter and disappointed. He hated mum accusing her of influencing uncle to tell him to branch after O’level, something he did not want. Out of frustrations he stubbornly refused to branch to college. Mum and uncle took time talking to him so that he could reverse his decision and join college, but all fell on deaf ears. He decided to marry and remained home with his wife. Together they joined up hearts to hate mum and totally refused to help her in anything. Much as food was available in the home, our mum is old and needed someone to help her. My brother with the wife decided not help her and not even to serve her food whenever they cook in their home. Many times I returned from school only to find mum starving in the verandah while my brother and his wife had good time. I felt so disturbed about this and yet I had no authority to question my brother and his wife as to why they did not help mummy. I had no alternative but to break away from the only brother I have and joined mum to condemn his acts. Tension was high in the home between the two camps to a point that sometimes bitter quarrels erupted. The worst of all came one day when the wife to my brother attempted to beat mum. Thank God she did not land the hand on her, the worst of history would have been told from our family that day. People told me that even if you are at school, if you don’t find a woman to marry and help your mother, don’t be surprised one day to find her dead because of starvation; or even under some unclear circumstances. This tormented my life and I felt like leaving school all together and look after my mum. After senior six exams my uncle was still interested and able to pay my tuition at a higher level, but because he has his own family responsibilities, he could not afford to care for mum as well. All the time I had fear my brother and his wife could easily do something bad to mum while am at school. I made a decision once and abandoned school. Later I got a simple girl in senior two. She came from a moderate family but brought up very well. I convinced her to abandon her education and marry me, so that together she could help me to look after my mum. She accepted. While still in courtship, she got pregnant. I wanted to bring her home as a wife, but I faced some resistance from both families. They claimed we had a blood relationship. But her mother played an important role in defusing the controversy I my favor till I was able to bring her home as my wife. She’s a wonderful girl. Hard working, loving and very protective of my mum. Today we have two children, though am yet to pay her dowry. This very wife of mine advised me and we invested in peasant agriculture. We got good money out of it. I thought this was the time for me to buy animals and pay her family dowry after spending too long without giving them anything. Surprisingly the mother of my children told me not to use the money for paying dowry first. But instead advised me to go back to school and use the money for tuition.I joined university. She remained home working single handedly to raise for me tuition; at the same time taking care of our two children and my mum. But while at university I faced some challenges. First, back home my brother and his wife have not stopped hating and confronting mum and my wife combined. Soul Connect; help advice. Story will continue tomorrow. Log on tunein/radio/Etop-FM-994-s231697 and listen to Etop Radio FM 99.4 Live online.
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