Letter to the editor
Help Tlhoriso Petrus Koos Motaung to reunite with his long-lost family.
Writes: Tlhoriso Petrus Koos Motaung
I humbly request that the community of Kwatsaduza assist me in searching for my long-lost maternal family.
They are alleged to be last seen in the 70s while they were still residing at either house number 99 or 100 in the now defunct Old Brakpan Township, demolished by the former South African apartheid leadership.
Moreover, it is alleged that Old Brakpan Township’s former residents were forcefully removed from the current rhythmic Tsakani Township, in 1978.
My maternal grandmother’s names and maiden name are Mmakwasa Mary (Maria) Mokoteli (pronounced Mokotedi) respectively.
She was known to many at the now defunct township as Mary Moepi (Moepye) since she was married to Kgabo Moepi (Moepye).
She had five children from which my mother is her firstborn, Dipuo (my biological mother, born in 1940), uncle Moferefere, aunt Tsotsi, aunt Mamfora and, unfortunately, the fifth one (who was my other uncle), was completely forgotten by my family repository.
My grandmother came from Kroonstad before she would end up staying and working as a domestic worker in the former Transvaal province in Brakpan.
She is a Sesotho-speaking and a South African national.
Some of the farms’ names my granny dwelled and resided at in the former Orange Free State in and around Kroonstad districts are Ha-Malahla and Wonderkop.
Her siblings’ names were Molefi Willem Mokotedi, Lebakeng Gert Mokotedi and Mmaditweba Mokotedi.
I am pleading with anyone who may have valuable and relevant information about their whereabouts to contact the following people, Koos Motaung at the email address 56587740@mylife.unisa.ac.za or Eliza Motaung at 063 485 2338.
