Teko Modise Revealed His Disturbing Childhood

Teko Modise Revealed His Disturbing Childhood

Former Bafana Bafana Teko Modise reveals about disturbing childhood. The phase where he use to live as a Street kid.

Teko Modise revealed how his father used to beat him up and end up throwing him out of the house at the age of 8th.

Teko Modise further revealed that his father, Steve Sekgaila was a footballer but didn’t want his son to play.

“My dad never told me he was a footballer. I was told by neighbours,”.  Modise was born in Meadowlands Soweto and later was raised in Diepkloof by his mother.

“He’s the guy who took me to my first game at FNB Stadium. But he never wanted me to play the game. He kicked me out.

“I think he was mad at the game. I think something happened. So he was always pushing me to go to school.

“So whenever there were guys coming to try to lure me to go and play for them he didn’t like it. I’d get a beating. So you know when as a kid somebody tells you not to do a thing, you actually go out and do it.

“I was told not to play this game and I wanted to find out what was it about this game that he didn’t want me to play.

“So we never actually had a relationship after that because once he kicked me out at eight, then I become a street kid for a few months. The first time I ate Chicken Licken was from a dustbin.

“When i was young, i stayed with my dad for a long time, so I never knew anything about my mom’s side, because he was that guy who would cage me into not knowing anything about anybody else. So when he kicked me out, I didn’t know who to go to.

“I had to stay as a street kid. I didn’t know where my mom got the message from and I also didn’t know where she was. Then she come back and searched for me until she found me.”

Modise was asked why he thought his father kept him from his mother.

“Look, I had an opportunity last year or the year before seeing my dad for the first time since I was eight. I tried to ask him and he was still not telling the truth,” he added

“Because my dad was dodgy. He would come back late at night bleeding. And nobody would ask him because he was that type of dude who was very quiet, and everybody was scared of him, and I was scared of him too.”

“In the hood there is always going to be that kid who always f***s up. And I went to him, and was like, ‘I’m in this situation’. And he said, ‘Don’t worry I’ll help you out’.

“We found a place where I could hide my bags and clothes, and he’s the one who taught me the skills of how to survive and find food.

“We would go to Florida Park, where families will go out for picnic, and we would go through those bins to find food.

“I would come back and change into many clothes, so people wouldn’t know. When people saw me they thought I was still staying with my dad.

“I was sleeping in the veld somewhere. There was a big hole, we had to go under it and we would cover it with plastic so nobody would see. When we leave we’d make sure that our clothes were safe. We’d do that every day.”

Modise stayed three days without food. After his mother rescued him. She left him at a house with his sister and brother, where there was no love, no encouragement, nothing at all ”.

“My escape and therapy at the time was football,” he said.

He said his painful upbringing made him discreet around people, which leads people to think he was arrogant.