Desolate Life Of A Fatherless Child

Kabelo Ntau
Kabelo Ntau

Growing up without a father was, and still is, the hardest thing that Kabelo Ntau, 23, of Selebi-Phikwe has ever dealt with his entire life. As a boy, not knowing his biological father was not an issue until his teens when the thought of wanting to know his father tormented him.

With time,the thought of his father having abandoned him before he was born and never coming back, felt like a curse on him. Things got worse when his mother, Shirley Ntau eventually got married and the man he called ‘Dad’ never accepted him as part of the family.

His stepfather would scorn him for being the only black child in the family whilst other children were light in complexion and always reminded him how he was not his biological child.

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