Martin* grew up without a father, and with a mother who dealt drugs to make ends meet. His sister was taken away by social services and, by the age of six, he had been taken in by drug dealers because his mother owed them money. He is now behind bars as a juvenile, serving a three-year sentence. Mail & Guardian
“They asked my grandmother why I was living there, why I had no proper clothes and why I wasn’t at school. She explained the whole situation and I ended up living with the owners of the farm. They have done everything for me and have given me a better life, and because of my stupidity I have really disappointed them,” said Martin. The farm owners would become his foster parents.
Their crimes range from housebreaking to rape and murder. Martin is one of the luckier young men in the centre. He has foster parents who care for him. “I used to tutor him in maths; now he is helping other students here. We have quite an extensive programme, whereby all the young men are either in a mainstream class or they are doing vocational studies such as skills workshops,” says Mathebula.
“Our challenge is that if these boys leave here without skills, they could easily go back to the life they had. Without education there is no future and education is what they must leave here with.” The situation was difficult, to the point where he was invited for soccer trials at a major team, but he had no money to take a taxi. “That’s when I started hanging out with the wrong crowd and smoking drugs and being very angry,” he says.
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