Farming fairy tale LOSHNI’S HAPPY ENDING
Jun 20, 2021
3 minutes
Words: Michele Hewitson.
Here’s the thing about fairy tales – they end happily ever after, but we never get to see what the ever-after actually looks like.
But Loshni Manikam knows. She was the second of three daughters in a “very traditional” Hindu family growing up in Durban, South Africa. She was a tomboy. She preferred helping her dad fix the car to joining her mum and sisters in the kitchen.
“I didn’t want to be the girly girl,” she recalls.
Still, Loshni
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