Marizka Coetzer He said his daughter had been in his care since the age of six and was removed when he was falsely accused of assaulting her after an argument Picture: iStock/Zolnierek A quadriplegic father says he will not give up the fight to see his daughter – even if it means he has to crawl to court. It has been nearly two years since the Joburg father, who cannot be named because the case is still in court, has seen his teenage daughter. “I have a high court order for her to be placed back in my care but they keep on saying she doesn’t want to see me. Can you imagine not seeing your child?” The man was not having any luck with the department of social development (DSD) for.
Culture must not stifle men s desire to be present fathers for kids 27 January 2021 - 07:26
My kids, my responsibility. These were the words of Solomon Mondlane, whom I wrote about in this column at the beginning of 2020. Mondlane has been in a painstaking process of trying to gain access to his children, who moved in with their grandparents following the death of their mother. Mondlane has been in this war to access his children for three years and seven months. He tells me that his elder daughter said to him: “Let it go papa. You tried and we all know.”
No parent should have to fight a long, and almost always financially draining, case to see their own children, especially when the father has not been given a substantive reason as to why this is the case. And children should also not be subjected to witnessing such pain, so much so that they ask their dad to give up on the entire process.