Abandoned, Episode 1

S2 E1 • 23m • 13

30-year-old Cecelia Mohalidi is looking to be reconnected with her father, Lucas Mhlaba, after having no connection with him for over 25 years. She is seeking help with connecting with him.

S2 E2 • 22m • 13

Growing up in an Indian family as a black child caused identity challenges for Danielle Adams. She is seeking help with finding her biological mother.

S2 E3 • 22m • 13

Sibusiso who was raised by his paternal family after his mother abandoned him is struggling with unresolved anger issues. His family is seeking help with reuniting him with his mother.

S2 E4 • 21m • 13

Olona and her four siblings have a strained relationship with their mother who has been in and out of their lives. Olona needs help with connecting with her long gone mother.

S2 E5 • 22m • 13

Julia and Faith Mothowa grew up without their father. They reached out to Abandoned to help them reconnect with their father that they never knew.

S2 E6 • 21m • 13

Phumzile Tshabalala grew up with her five siblings. Being the eldest, and the only one of her mother's children not knowing her father. She reached out to the show to find her father.

S2 E7 • 21m • 13

Thabiso Leputla has been searching for his father for 10 years. He fortunately found him, but after numerous failed attempts of meeting with him, Thabiso is seeking help with meeting him.

S2 E8 • 21m • 13

Lesego Mokhesi and her mother left their family home after a marital breakdown stemming from an extramarital affair. Lesego is seeking help in finding her father.

S2 E9 • 23m • 13

Given seeks to be reunited with his father, whom he lost contact with as an infant. Will Abandoned be able to find and reconnect the father and son?

S2 E10 • 21m • 13

35-year-old Nompumelelo Mahlangu has been having a recurring dream where a paternal grandfather keeps telling her to come home. However, she has no recollection of meeting him.

S2 E11 • 21m • 13

Sibongile was raised by her mother and her step-father. Until the age of 21, she received financial support from her biological father through maintenance court, but she has never met him.

S2 E12 • 22m • 13

Lerato Mangope was raised by her mother and her stepfather until her mother passed on. She had to move out of the home she knew and her life took a turn for the worst.

S2 E13 • 22m • 13

Loyiso Gobinca wants to find his father who left a family of two wives and twelve children back home in 2002, claiming to go look for work in Johannesburg & never returned.