PROUD OF MANENBERG

Hi there guys
I just want to apologist to every one or maybe I should start by thanking you first for your support in this journey. Its gonna be a hard one as I came to find. The reason that I'm apologizing is because Ive not got my past right not that Ive lied to you but some facts are in the wrong place. So I want to start again to get it right if that's OK with you.

I'm starting with my mother just to give you the same picture I'm getting putting this journey together.

My mother (Carrol Ann Jansen) was born in cape town and left at the hospital with a address of her farther on a piece of paper. Her mother was domestic at a place in sea point and got involve with the boss and that's how my mother came to be. my mother then lived with her farther for 3 years and then her mothers family decided to come and fetch her. she then grew up in goetverwagth just out side piketberg. My mothers mother never was there so her grandparents raised her in a very abusive home. Got sexually abused by her granddad and swept under the carpet. being the Cinderella of the house she grew up hating her family. Every one in the family at that time became teachers and it was destined for her also to go that route. In her last year AT TEACHERS SCHOOL she fell pregnant with my oldest sister and the family felt disgraced and would not allow her to finish her final exam. She then became the unqualified teacher in the family. She then didn't want to go back home after my sister got born and came to live with her aunt in grassy park next to my farther.

Ill finish here cause I'm getting to angry

till next time

Its good to be aware!

Hi Jonathan, just a quick one to say thank you for starting this blog and sharing your life journey. I value that your words speak truth and say things as they are without any malice or manipulation. Because of how you express truth, I believe a reader is invited to embrace your journey and journey your journey! God Bless you!. G.

PROUD OF MANENBERG

Growing up or from when I could remember we where struggling. When I was born my mother was living with her aunt in grassy park. However, her aunt also took in other family to and that had its own effects. My mother (Carroll Ann Jansen) didn't get along with the other aunt that also stayed there and decided to leave without knowing where we would stay. My mother was a teacher at the time at a school in Ottery so she didn’t want to move far from there. She didn't get any place to stay and found on the nearby bush there were discarded water pipes and that became our home for a wile i was 2 years at the time. Not long after we moved into our new home. my mother met a lady at the local day hospital and like my mother normally is started talking about her situation. She then dint tell the lady about where we stay but told her that she was looking for a nanny for me and my sister she was 3 1/2 at the time. The lady told my mother that she knew someone that might be willing to look after us during the day. It took people about a month to find out where we stay. The lady that looked after us asked my mom where we stayed and my mother didn’t want to say. The lady then sent her son to follow my mom to find out where we stayed. When she found out where we lived her heart broke for us and invited my mom to come and stay with her. Our second time living with other people. At lease with the water pipe it was ours or that’s what my mother told me.
Till next time

PROUD OF MANENBERG

my name is Jonathan Jansen
I grew up in a community called Manenberg. This blog is to challenge the stigma of Manenberg out there. The one of it being infested by gangsters or drug addicts or that if you make it in life people leave cause its not a save environment to start a family.

Yes Manenberg has a bad history of gang violence and drugs but that not all that Manenberg has as history. Allot of strong music stars came from Manenberg and not the Manenberg jazz club at the waterfront.

Therefore, my invite is to all Manenberg families to join in on this blog and let us together write the history of Manenberg.

Jonathan