Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
14.04.2026
Verlag
Billy KirshSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
138 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798233349768
He paid for the degree. He co-signed the car. He raised her for 14 years. He got a YouTube link. Thabo was 27, living in Sunnyside, Pretoria, when he chose Lerato - and her 3-year-old daughter Naledi. He didn't just marry a woman. He funded a childhood in a country where lobola is paid upfront but stepfatherhood is paid monthly. School fees. Laptop from Dion Wired. Flat deposit in Hatfield. The 5am drive to Gogo's house in Limpopo when she had tonsillitis. The parent meeting at Hoërskool where the teacher called him "Meneer." Then the WhatsApp came at 11:47am on a Wednesday: "Tikette is min. Dis ek, Mama, Bheki, Sipho. Jy bly by die huis met Kago en Lesedi. Ons stuur die YouTube link." Bheki - the biological pa who vanished for 18 years, then reappeared on Facebook with "my princess" comments - got the plastic white chair under the jacarandas at the University of Pretoria graduation. Thabo got the buffering livestream on Telkom LTE. On graduation day, his 12-year-old son Kago asked the only question that mattered: "Papa, why aren't you there?" This is not a revenge story. This is the manual they never give South African stepfathers - about the six moments that change a man's life forever:
- Moment One: Losing everything and starting over with someone else's child
- Moment Two: Losing Gogo Mmapula, the only person who told the truth without charging
- Moment Three: Being betrayed by the woman he loves - via WhatsApp
- Moment Four: Having his heart broken by the one he loves - his son's question
- Moment Five: Realising no one is coming to save him, after saving everyone else
- Moment Six: When his kindness is taken for weakness
PLOT TWIST: Three months later, Naledi called. Not to apologize. She needed the warranty papers for the Polo Vivo. Because Thabo is the man who always has the paperwork. BLACKBALLED is brutally honest, painfully funny, and uncomfortably familiar to every man who's ever been the ATM, the Uber driver, the "fun uncle," and the ghost in the family photo. For the men who stayed. And for the children who noticed. Billy Kirsh is a father from Pretoria East. He still has the receipts, the e-toll statements, and the co-signed WesBank papers.
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