HE LOOKS you full in the eye, almost as if he’s challenging you to look away.
Melvin Maxim is used to people averting their gaze when they see him – or staring at him when they think he isn’t looking.
The 42-year-old dad from George in the Western Cape has a condition where keloids – overgrown scar tissue – hang like clusters of dates on either side of his friendly face.
The growths people can see are only the half of it, he says – the keloids on his back, chest and shoulders are hidden from view by his clothing.
“They bother me,” he admits.
“I have to sleep on my
