A MOTHER needs protection for her nine-year-old daughter.
The 38-year-old from Snake Park in Soweto told Daily Sun that her dead boyfriend was haunting her daughter.
She said she sprinkled holy water around her home, but the boyfriend won’t leave them alone.
She said everything was going great in her relationship with the man until a nosy neighbour told him that their child looked like someone from their area.
“I’ve never given him a reason not to trust me yet he confronted me about this. How did a lousy makhelwane get into our business?”
The mum said he also promised to pay lobola but when the paternity became an issue, he made it clear it would not happen until they went for DNA testing. “I was hurt and felt insulted because I never cheated on him. I gave 100% of myself. I was hoping his brothers would talk some sense into him,” she said.
Unfortunately, then the man died in April 2020. She said last October, he started terrorising her daughter.
“He started by appearing in her dreams, then he started pushing things around to scare her more, and even choked her,” she told the People’s Paper.
She said that a local prophet told her the man was angry, so he was finding it difficult to protect the child while he was in doubt.
“She gave me holy water to sprinkle around the house and tied a green string around the daughter’s waist,” she said.
“The dead man left her alone for only two weeks,” she said.
Then she took her child to live with her sister, but that did not help.
“There are days when my child is too tired to go to school after her terrible nights,” she said.
The woman’s sister said she was hoping that going to the prophet would work.
“Praying seems to make it worse,” said the sister.
The brother of the dead man said he did not know that his sibling was questioning the paternity.
“The child looks exactly like him. I think he was ashamed to even tell the family,” he said.
He said he only found out when the baby mama told him.
“We will do everything we can to help. We also need guidance though.”
Sangoma Mkhulu Zizwe Makhasane said the family of the dead man needed to visit his grave and talk to him.
“They need to do a paternity test with one of the brothers, and then a ceremony to welcome the child into the family,” said Makhasane.