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Where are the boys? South Africa’s quiet education crisis | SA News

I still remember Mxo.

We were village boys together – barefoot, mischievous, inseparable. He was older than me, stronger, more confident. The kind of boy you assume will be fine. School never quite held him, though. He drifted in and out, struggled to keep pace, and eventually dropped out altogether. Like many boys in our village, he was also growing up without a father – navigating boyhood without a steady male presence to anchor, correct, or guide him.

No intervention.

No second chance.

No one asking what he needed.

Years later, Mxo took his own life.

There was no national headline. No panel discussion. Just another young man quietly erased. Mxo is not an anecdote. He is a pattern.

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