A tearful Alick Macheso has, for the first time. spoken about how his father deserted his family and tried to kidnap him when he was seven years old.
Macheso who turns 55 tomorrow, told H Metro that his
father, Hardson Maenela did a runner when his mother was three months pregnant.
He had to adopt his mother’s surname.
“My father was never present in my life, he left when my
mother was three months pregnant with me. I was raised by my mother’s family
because of some circumstances that were beyond my mother’s control.
“The first time I saw my father was when I was seven. On
this day, I was playing football at the compound when he came and asked me to
follow him. I had to call my uncle. He wanted to lure me with sweets while he
was hiding in the maize field close to our compound. When it got to my uncle’s
attention, murume mukuru akamhanya zvekuti akaparadza chibage kunge Combine
Harvester and he was never seen again. The last time we heard about him, he was
staying in the Tanda area in Rusape. He once wrote a letter to us, but it was
misplaced since we were hopping from one
area to the other.”
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