An open Letter to Florence Masebe:

Harassment 

Will you please refrain from using my fb page and twitter accounts to post articles on your blog. I know you want to advance your career but so do I. I complained a lot about the use of our family names by the SABC and certain celebs on my blog but I see our birthdays are becoming a trend too.  I have been harassed ever since I was in high school (the list is on my blog: Florence Shoko SA) I’m trying to get this harassment to stop and this is making it impossible if people like you also are also on the bandwagon.

I regret the day I sent you an email, asked you to help me organize a show of similarities and gave you the link to my blog.  I have copyrighted this information under “A THEORY OF ALLEGORICAL NAMES” since 2011. This info is on posted on my blog in January. 

I cannot get a job in the entertainment industry or anywhere in SA because of the harassment and exploitation of us and my work and this isn’t making things easy. I am a single mother of a 12yr old child and this harassment is starting to affect her too. I am trying to use this info (like on the January email I sent you) to make a living for us and this harassment and abuse of my work is not making things easy. 

I see information on your twitter account that’s similar to that on my blog, facebook page and twitter accounts and am amazed as to why you would do this, when you know about my plight. This is an infringement of our privacy and I’m asking you to stop.

Please don’t use any information coming from my social networks for you interviews on magazines or to advance your career because this is about me and not you. I’ve used my family history, personal experiences and dreams. My dreams on my fb page are just that, stuff I dream about and they have nothing to do with you. Dreams are free, it really isn’t necessary for anyone to steal this info, to enrich themselves.

I know you have children, you provide for them and want the best for them, so do I. This (personal) info, is my work that’s being abused for entertainment, while we suffer, was meant for me to build my career with. I’m only going to point out the most recent stuff, don’t want to go to deep into this harassment because it will take more pages:  
My birthday: 7 July  
I really don’t understand why everything you do has to be on the seventh, this is my bday and not yours. 

7 August and 7 November

I also don’t understand why you’d posted announce your shows to be on the 7^th of both this months and not on the other months, this has to do with my family. My daughter’s bday is in November and her dad’s in August?

Joko Tea

The stuff about Joko tea I’ve posted a photo on google+ 2years ago.    

Mantshegele Media.

This is my name and I have named my production company ‘Mantshegele Media” after it. It’s a Tswana name because that’s what I am, a Motswana despite my surname. I see you have signed a contract to act in a Tswana movie/drama and it was announced this week. I have decided on this Tswana name this week (twitter, fb), is this deliberate or co-incidental. This information is about us, where’s yours.   I sincerely hope this confusion/trend will come to an end. Stop copying me, I’m not copying you.

PLEASE HELP US STOP THIS CRIME.