I FOUND BEAUTY IN MY SCARS

“It was a cold day on 13 July 2010. I remember that day so well because it changed my life forever. I was 12 years old at the time and it was my first year of high school. My friend, little sister and I were walking home from school.

I’m from Vingerkraal, a small community outside Bela Bela. We stayed right next to a big game lodge owned by a wealthy white man. I had heard stories about how he was forcing our community to move out of the area so that he could extend this lodge.

People refused to move to a neighbouring area called Masakhane because they didn’t have