Sfiso Opens Up About Being Abandoned as a Newborn and Childhood Trauma

• Sfiso revealed on a podcast that his mother abandoned him when he was just two hours old
• The media personality shared that he was found near a station and raised by a woman named Cesar Kelly
• Sfiso opened up about how life at home took a dark turn after the woman who raised him passed away

Few people in South African media are willing to bare their most painful truths in public, but Sfiso did exactly that on the Engineer Your Life With Lungelo KM podcast. Seated in a softly lit studio, speaking into a microphone, the personality delivered a raw and emotionally heavy account of his earliest days on earth and the years that followed.

Abandoned hours after birth

Sfiso revealed that his biological mother left him when he was roughly two hours old, discarding him near a container close to a station. A woman named Cesar Kelly found him on her way to work and took him in, giving him a home and a name. Rather than carry bitterness toward his mother, Sfiso told himself a story that keeps the resentment at bay.

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"My mom threw me away, man. What makes me not a hater, it's, I keep telling myself, she was a young student, she was probably a young student, and then a few classes, she didn't want to go home and say, hey, I'm pregnant was a big thing back then, in 1982, it was taken serious, if you come home pregnant.”

He added that life with Cesar Kelly, though not easy financially, felt stable enough that he never even registered the absence of a biological mother. He shared:

"I didn't notice that I was, I didn't notice I didn't have a mother until she died."

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When everything changed

The death of Cesar Kelly, who Sfiso described as the breadwinner of the household, marked a turning point for the worse. With her gone, the atmosphere in the home shifted entirely, and Sfiso became a scapegoat for every misfortune, no matter how small. He recalled:

"When my mom died, I guess it got worse because probably my mom, Cesar Kelly, was the breadwinner. I guess that made her home better. So when she died, now I became everything that happened in the house wrong was my fault. Like literally someone would break a glass and then someone shouted.”

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After Cesar Kelly's passing, those around him gave him a new name, calling him "Nga Po," a detail he shared without elaboration but one that speaks to how profoundly his identity was reshaped by the grief and dysfunction that followed her death.

The interview, filmed against a warm backdrop of a lamp and framed artwork, closed with a black disclaimer slide, a quiet punctuation mark on a story that was anything but quiet. Sfiso's willingness to speak openly about abandonment and childhood pain adds a deeply human dimension to his public profile.

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Source: Briefly News