FINDING MY HERITAGE

TO THE outsider, it sounds as if she has a charmed life. She divides her time between her homes in trendy Berlin andswankyLlandudno, Cape Town, has been a stylist for Ciara, worked as a costumer for Beyoncé, and has had success as a singer and a filmmaker.

But there are two sides to every coin and for Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen – daughter of South African talk-show host Felicia Mabuza-Suttle – memories of a childhood where she felt different and ostracised run deep.

Lindiwe was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the US, but the family moved around a lot, from what was formerly known as the homeland of Bophuthatswana to Florida, Texas, North Carolina and Georgia. Growing up,