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South Africa is a society where too many children are fatherless. The costs of this are high in more ways than one - but it's also unhelpful to play the blame game, writes Johan Fourie.
South Africa is a fatherless country. According to Statistics SA, around 42% of children lived only with their mothers. Another 21% did not live with either of their parents. Fewer than four in 10 children live with their father.
Why is this? Meet Sthe. He is a father of two and says: "I am supposed to be living with them and their mother, but now I am what you call ... not married, I have not yet had enough money to get married because of work, I don't work."
