Dillish Catchinh Up With Her New-Found Stardom

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Dillish Mathews has to catch up quickly with the reality of her new-found stardom and try to understand what reality TV – for which she was handsomely rewarded – means.

The minute she entered Big Brother Africa (BBA) – The Chase three months ago, she volunteered and laid herself bare to public scrutiny, and millions of people in Africa watched her every move, even in the bathroom.

She was voted to stardom by the people, like any politician, and she’s has a duty to be accountable to the people, amidst the respect for her privacy like anyone else.

Our brave beauty must take cognizance of the actuality that her victory was not only as a result of Namibia, but an African ruling since the continent voted her to eminence.

The Kenyan media did a follow up on the story that appeared exclusively in this newspaper on the search for her father, and she should appreciate that Kenya expanded on her fame in the East African country to find her father, notwithstanding the embodiment of Pan-Africanism she represent, with a Namibian mother and a Kenyan father.

She is not compelled to have a responsibility to her biological father if she so wishes, but she can use her status to alert Namibia and Africa alike about the menace of men, who impregnate women and then do not care for the offspring.

As a celebrity and a public figure, Dillish should exploit the opportunity to aid thousands of other children who have grown up without knowing their fathers.

In Namibia, like elsewhere in the world and across cultural divides, there’s nothing unusual about growing up without a father.

Hundreds of thousands of children have been raised by single mothers or by their grandparents, who should be regarded as the real heroes of this country, and this an undisputed fact.

It was her wish to meet her father one day, as she told housemates while in the BBA house, and her mother repeated her wish, and this newspaper has evidence of that call from the latter.

Albert Einstein, today known as the father of relativity, was rejected by his father as a fool, while one of the greatest scientists, Isaac Newton who discovered the law of gravity, grew up without a father.

Dillish was under scrutiny for 24 hours and 91 days in the BBA house, nevertheless she persevered by any means. That’s why she and her grandfather, the only father figure she has known, are true heroes of society, because he brought her up and she became a success story.

That’s an inspiration to thousands of fatherless children in Namibia, and subsequently millions of children in Africa. There are also many children who can be inspired by the way she handled herself in BBA, regardless of her strategy in the house.

The continent embraced her as an African role model and for that Namibia should be grateful that a daughter of the land of the brave has become an icon of Africa. She is an African champion that beat the challenging status quo of her birth.

If Dillish sees her situation as bad now that she’s famous, and perhaps well-off, she should see how the foreign media haunt their stars for all the wrong and right reasons.

The brave beauty is in good company, and unfortunately, this is not the time to say the media must leave her alone or that Informanté lied about the search of her biological father, that’s not going to happen.

When Dillish and her friend Maria Nepembe were campaigning for support through the media before they entered the BBA house, the media gave their support without reservation.

Even if the media wishes to stay away from her and her family, she will never be out of the public eye and scrutiny, that’s the price one pays for being a public figure voted for by the people.

She was lucky in the first place to be chosen from thousands to enter the house, and her victory in BBA was an honour bestowed on her. Our advice to Dillish is to make the best of her status and inspire millions of people on the continent who look up to her for motivation.