Mabo learnt at an early age that education is the key to success. She figured that education was what she needed to make her dreams come true. And so that is all she ever did – she read and studied. Twenty-seven years later, she decided that maybe it was not true after all. She began to see a twisted perspective of the whole idea.
Mabo grew up in a small village in the rural parts of Eswatini called Salem. She lived with her aged grandfather who brought her up with his wisdom to become a sensible woman someday. She had known him to be her only guardian angel. He was there to pick her up when she fell. His love for her gave him the strength to move around to provide for both of them despite his old age.
When Mabo was seven years old, her grandfather became very sick. He began to move less and his health deteriorated every day. He could not provide for both of them the same way he did before. Mabo felt helpless. She did not know how she could possibly help her grandfather. Grandfather’s health became worse and he had trouble breathing. Mabo knew she needed to seek for help. She walked around the village seeking for someone to help her grandfather, but no one was willing to help her. She could not spend all her time searching. She had to go back to grandfather. He needed her. Upon her arrival, grandfather really looked at her, knowing she had done her best, then breathed his last.