Born and bred in Old Naledi, Sebego does not only drive top of the range models but he also owns properties in up-market leafy suburbs like Phakalane. His daughter goes to an English Medium School, a far cry from his bare foot days at Therisanyo Primary School in Old Naledi. During the interview, Sebego does not resemble a township boy. He is clad in casual designer labels, clean-shaven and even his nails have been manicured. But Sebego still remains a deep-rooted township boy and you cannot take it away from him. Sebego is proud of his Old Naledi roots and feels it is the township that made him what he is. Over the weekends, he can be seen cruising around "Zola" in his convertible BMW Z4 or X5. For many youth in Old Naledi, he is their role model. He runs a social football team in the location and sponsors a soccer tournament annually.
But Sebego recalls that growing in an impoverished neighbourhood was tough. "There were many challenges. Old Naledi is like a village and the social network is the same like in a village. Growing up was not easy. My home was a shebeen and tuckshop. We were somehow able to have food on the table".But he says studying under such a setup was a nightmare. He says the shebeen operated every day closing at night. The children manned it. Sebego says while growing up in Old Naledi, he lacked role models because the people who made it in life never wanted to come back or to be associated with the township. Their role models, he recalls, were hardcore criminals and people on the other side of the law. "These were the people we idiolised. Most of the youngsters fell prey to peer pressure. Social amenities did not provide for intervention that could prevent the youth from falling into undesirables," he says. "By the time we were doing Standard Seven, half of our classmates were smoking and drinking. From the group that I started Standard One with, I am the only one who went to university," he says.
