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The crisis of South Africa’s missing dads 

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Less than one-third of black South African children live with their biological fathers 

“The child faces a void without his father,” Victor Pike tells a room full of men in Khayelitsha, a poor part of Cape Town. The audience nods along as the community worker from Father A Nation, an ngo, espouses a “positive masculinity” whereby absent dads take more responsibility. “The reason why our nation is broken is because there are no fathers there; we are fatherless.”

Source: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/09/14/the-crisis-of-south-africas-missing-dads?utm_content=ed-picks-image-link-6&etear=nl_sunday_today_6&utm_campaign=r.the-economist-sunday-today&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=9/14/2025&utm_id=2108253