Editors: Andrea Engel and Heather Silove Howe

Sharing curry recipes in Glebeland before forced removals; hiding in terror from the white valiant car; giving birth to her daughter and being discharged from hospital on the same day without a cent in her pocket; her husband’s drinking, girlfriends and violent ways; a very strange funeral and folk tales told to her by her mother …

Sibongile Sithole remembers how things used to be and tells true stories about her life as a mother, friend, wife and daughter.