Matimba chabane biography template

Matimba Chabane is a brave, articulate young man who spoke passionately about his late father, Collins Chabane.

At his father's funeral, he talked with great insight about the pressures that young men have to deal with daily.

This is what he said of the mourners who came to pay their last respects: "They said to me you are now a man, you must be strong, you must be in control, you must be in charge."

Matimba then added: "After all these comments, I began to walk like a man, think like a man and behave as such."

These are the kinds of statements that truly made me grasp the enormous pressure young men face, wittingly or unwittingly.

Matimba's story can teach us a lot.

The reality is that society does not allow boys to remain young, joyful and light-hearted.

Too often young boys are expected to be strong leaders in their households, when in fact they are not the men of the house and neither are th