Social media users are not impressed with Katlego Bereng’s father Batho Mpholo and don’t believe he’s sincere.
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TWEEPS TROLL BERENG’S FATHER: BATHO MPHOLO
Tweeps reckon Katlego Bereng’s father Batho Mpholo is seeking attention and only wants to profit from his son’s death after he asked for a publishing deal after finding out his son was dead.
Mpholo tweeted: “I need somebody who can help me write a book. The title of it will be “The Gap”. My life has been full of gaps. Somebody please”. This was after he announced his son’s death on Twitter on Saturday, 22 April.
A tweep @katli_mathule said: “Katlego Bereng’s deadbeat father likes the limelight okare (like) a struggling influencer”.
This after Mpholo revealed in several interviews that Bereng was raised by his mother and grandmother in the Free State and that he wasn’t in contact with the deceased until 2018 when he was 28 years old.
Author @JackiePhamotse also tweeted: “Iyoooo I have watched these interviews on Katlego’s family but the father takes the opportunistic cup! The man never went looking for his son, doesn’t even know his grandkids. He didn’t even know how to describe his son. But, he is the first to want money from the state”.
@JeannetteNtuli: “I am trying also not to be insensitive, Katlego has passed away but I saw the dad’s Twitter, not even where he is asking for people to help him look for his missing son”?
@fairnessbwb1: “We’re just saying, for someone that abandoned the lady at 2 months pregnant and started connecting with mother and son recently, he said 2017/18 maybe he should let those who raised him, mom and Gran to be forward and he takes the back seat as always.”
@Lynette_SA: “I’m glad someone is mentioning it. No mention of his son missing on his Twitter page either.”
@UncleMwitzz: “I was one of the people who got defensive when this issue was first raised but after getting the full story. The Father is an opportunist. His Twitter timeline has never indicated at any point that he had a missing son. I pray for justice. He does not deserve to eat from the lawsuit.”
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KATLEGO BERENG FAMILY WANTS ANSWERS
Batho Mpholo, who is the father of Katlego Bereng, whose body was used by Thabo Bester to escape from prison demands to know how his son died.
Mpholo said asked in an interview with the ENCA: “The truth and nothing but the truth. How did Thabo Bester get hold of my son’s body if he was in a government mortuary.”
He added that he doesn’t believe the police’s account of what had happened to his son, who went missing in April 2022.
Mpholo added that the family has not yet seen his body, and so hasn’t been able to start organising a funeral. Katlego Bereng Mpholo’s mother, Monica Matsie, broke down in tears while being interviewed by SABC.
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