Simphiwe ‘Simz’ Ngema’s son’s name was revealed to her in a dream years before he was even conceived. Let alone planned. In this particular dream, she shares that everyone around her was calling her ‘mama ka Kearabilwe Kemorena’, but at the time she was single and also very scared of falling in love.
The dream didn’t make sense but felt so real, she shared.
Simz Ngema with her son | SUPPLIED
“I was still just going through a lot of stuff at the time, and although I wanted a baby, I just didn’t know how I was going to get one. At the time, believe it or not, I was even looking into in vitro fertilization and those kinds of options because I just felt like I was so scared to fall in love again, scared to be in any relationship because I feared losing a partner again. But that particular dream felt so real that I knew that my son’s name was going to be Kemorena. No matter how it happened,” she said.
And when her little sonshine was born, the moment she carried him up until the time of birth, Simphiwe shared how that very moment felt like God was answering her. Especially as someone who has gone through so much trauma that it almost made her feel like God had forgotten her.
Kemorena became her answered prayer. The most complete part of her life.
So being a mother for the all-round performer has always been a dream of hers. The love for children and the special bond she shared with her younger sister’s child, with whom she had assumed the role of being a deputy mom at an early age, she knew that motherhood was a role she had to experience.
“But although I knew that he loved me so much and that I was his favorite aunt, when his mom stepped in, there was a completely different shift in the atmosphere. You could see his eyes lit up, and you could see that his entire world (his mother) had just come into the room. And that is what I wanted for myself—that different type of love that comes with being a mother,” she said.
Four years later, Simphiwe describes watching her son grow as nothing short of a miracle.