SHE finds it hard to look in the mirror. Every time she does, it feels if she’s looking at a stranger – her face is swollen and scarred and her right eyelid is so badly burnt she can no longer close her eye.
Tears stream down 19-year-old Londiwe Thabethe’s cheeks as she tells us how hard it has been for her to come to terms with what happened that horrific day in February.
Her whole life changed when she got into an altercation with two learners from her school and their mother, which allegedly culminated in them pouring acid over her.
“I do think of what I looked like before,” she says. “But I can’t go back in time – this is what I
